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Re: version numbers and infosets

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: version numbers and infosets
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:33:13 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l..., xml-editor@w...
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At 2:18 PM -0400 7/23/02, John Cowan wrote:

>That means that on mainframe platforms, XML files are not plaintext files
>and vice versa.  As a matter of justice, this is intolerable.

I'll listen to arguments about justice for people. I find arguments 
about justice for mainframes to be laughable. What's next? Justice 
for cell phones? Justice for Apple IIs? Justice for PDP-11s? Justice 
for weed whackers? Give me a break.
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