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Re: XPointer crisis

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• Subject: Re: XPointer crisis
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 15:53:49 -0500
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2/1/2002 3:14:35 PM, John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote:


>I agree, except that I'd rather see it one step meta, as

I'm reminded  Joshua Allen's recent warning:
"I think computer people are the worst in the world for always going 
meta.  Even when we have a clear problem to solve (like, implement an 
accounting system), we always try to attack the meta problem and the 
meta-meta problems first. "
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200201/msg01929.html

Sometimes we should Just Do It and let the abstractions sort 
themselves out in the fullness of time.  xml:id strikes me as one of 
those things.

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