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Re: Re: [ANN] XML Limerick Competition

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• Subject: Re: Re: [ANN] XML Limerick Competition
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:28:20 -0500
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Mike Champion wrote:


> Kick me out of the fraternity if you want, but I can 
> imagine doing this input, validation, display job 
> MUCH easier with procedural code than XML ...

But wait!  There's more!  Limericks and haiku aren't the only
kinds of strict-form lyric, you know.  Unfortunately,
I cannot find any regular xml-dev poster or W3C contributor
with a perfect double dactylic (DA-da-da-DA-da-da) name,
so I have had to approximate:

<double-dactyl>
Henry S. Thompson said,
"Syntactic, structure, and
Value constraints we
Express on the fly."

Simon St. Laurent: "Your
Incomprehensible
Abracadabralike
Schemas must die!"
</double-dactyl>

<double-dactyl>
H?ggledy-p?ggledy,
XML programmers
Try to escape those I-
Eighteen-en woes;

Incontrovertibly,
We could use many more
Unicode weenies and
Fran?ois Yergeaus.
</double-dactyl>

And here's the schema:

<double-dactyl class="meta" author="mailto:robison@t...";>
Long-short-short, long-short-short
Dactyls in dimeter,
Verse form with choriambs
(Masculine rhyme):
One sentence (two stanzas)
Hexasyllabically
Challenges poets who
Don't have the time.
</double-dactyl>

Finally, here's a tanka, or Extended Haiku (5-7-5-7-7):

<tanka>
Winter: MIT,
   Keio, INRIA,
Issue lots of Drafts.
   So much more to understand!
   Might simplicity return?
</tanka>

-- 
Not to perambulate             || John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
    the corridors               || http://www.reutershealth.com
during the hours of repose     || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
    in the boots of ascension.  \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel

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