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 The comments I saw are fair enough for web design but the doctype of the page he cites as an example (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/faqs/xml_faq_htmlxml) reads <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> which makes barger's comment a bit incomprehensible - "...and we're supposed to take XHTML seriously???" At 17/07/2002 15:31:25, "DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" <bob.ducharme@l...> wrote: # I'm a fan of robotwisdom.com, but without mentioning him by name, I've often # used Barger as a case study of someone who really doesn't get XML because # it's gotten too popular. He sees people who use XML as the hammer to too # many variations on nails, and it doesn't work well for his variations on # nails, so he comes to the conclusion that XML is badly designed. In his case # (not a direct quote, but a summary of his attitude) "XML is terrible for AI # work! What were the people who designed XML thinking?" # # He keeps complaining, but he keeps coming back (e.g. posting to # comp.text.xml, apparently). Search # http://www.robotwisdom.com/log2002m06.html for the word "mistake" to find # his detailed, out-of-left field complaints about an O'Reilly quotation of # the XML FAQ. # # (By the way, anti-XML anti-SGML people must be awfully clever if they can # hack into a theater's projection system so "quickly.") # # Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@ # snee.com> "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy # spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii # # # -----Original Message----- # From: akmal @ city [mailto:akmal@s...] # Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 5:00 PM # To: xml-dev@l... # Subject: FWD: Markup-language joke # # # Hi All, # # Just saw this on comp.text.xml, posted by Jorn Barger: # # <quote> # # An SGML fan, an XML fan, and an HTML fan are watching a movie when they # notice smoke coming out of a trashcan. # # The SGML fan says "We must convince the theater management to hire an # expert to write a DTD for emergency-announcements, and sell them an # expensive application for archiving announcements, and get them to hire a # team to convert all their old announcements to SGML!" # # The XML fan says, "There's no time for that! We must train all the # audience members to recognise XML, and then start a committee to # investigate the possibility of starting negotiations to form a working # group to write a paper on the future evolution of emergency-announcement # semantics!" # # Meanwhile, the HTML fan takes out his wireless PDA and types in: # # <h1><blink><font color=red>FIRE!</font></blink></h1> # # which he quickly hacks the digital projection system to display, saving # the lives of everyone in the theater. # # the pragmatic web: http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/pragmatics.html # # </quote> # # -- # akmal chaudhri # # IBM developerWorks - http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks/ # XMLDatabases ------- http://www.btinternet.com/~xmldatabases/ Roger 
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