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At 12:43 PM 8/1/2002 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >Simon St.Laurent wrote: > >>To the extent that programmers have influenced the development of XML >>since version 1.0, I think the impact has been severely negative. > >Too simple I think. Particularly given that almost all of the advantages >of XML over SGML were based on the principle of "leave out everything >except what programmers actually understand and use." -Tim Sure, Tim. That works for XML 1.0. It doesn't work for much if anything after that. (It sort of works for XSLT, though many people I know who come to XSLT from programming have rather strong negative initial reactions. Is it the variable thing?) Once programmers started _adding_ to markup practice rather than reducing markup practice, we wound up with huge mashes of nastiness that take eternity to sort out. Case studies: namespaces, W3C XML Schema, W3C XML Query.... Simon St.Laurent "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue
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