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It was during the "well-formed only" period. We got a bit lost in the hyped statements for awhile as the message slowly migrated to "well, we really mean, kill DTDs for something better we will create later". Like the "namespaces are only for disambiguation" threads, it left a lot of people mistrustful about the emperor's new clothes. As Goldfarb said so many years ago, "somewhere a byte has to change state". The old brouhahas over processing instructions was the SGML version of this same issue: should processing be coupled to the instance. Deprecating them started about 90% of the other projects the results of which are still scattered around the markup landscape. len -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@r...] I'm trying to remember when people started assuming that a naked instance was in and of itself useful.... when the XML activity was kicked off, the charter explicitly included bits that would make XML actually useful as a generic markup language (stylesheets and linking in particular). Somewhere along the line, we lost focus of the need for things to *process* XML as part of the application.
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