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• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: misprocessing namespaces (was Re: There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone)
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:51:05 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <3C589A61.95139DF@p...> from Paul Prescod at "Jan 30, 200205:14:09 pm"

Paul Prescod scripsit:

> One of the major arguments for moving away from DTDs was that an
> XML-based syntax would be simpler!

Simpler for programmers, who have bbls of XML parsers to use on them.
Not necessarily simpler for schema authors.

I wish XML Schema had a non-XML format...

-- 
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@c...
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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