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Mike Champion <mc@x...> wrote: | OK, so why did the SOAP folks not find comma-delimited ASCII | suitable for their needs? Because pointy brackets were in fashion. | And why did they determine that DTDs cause more trouble than they | are worth? Did they really determine this? Let's see: SOAP doesn't need IDs, entity references, or default values for attributes. It doesn't even need mandatory encasing of attribute values in single or double quotes. A simple Lisp like syntax (as in PICS) could have served just as well, not to mention making implementation of a parser all but trivial. But! Pointy brackets are still in fashion.
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