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Simplicity: no internal or external references to other topics explicitly or implicitly (eg, no parts left silent); topics internally are linear and don't nest deeper than two levels. If you can write in text that clearly, it is simple. len From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...] > How about this for a rule? > > * No standard should be longer than 15 printed pages (at 12 > pts Times), > excluding front and backmatter, tuorial material, DTDs or > other XML code, and formal characterizations. I tried suggesting that a measure of simplicity on the TAG list and was informed I was ignorant. Seems that even some arguably simple standards require more words. I guess that's true. I don't that Tim Bray ever got a useful response to his request for a measure of simplicity. I don't think there is one, but we all know simple when we see it.
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