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Re: Markup perspective not code (wasRE: Re: URIs, co


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> I agree with Tim here and have a hard time seeing how XML is a useful
> *technology* to anyone but "programmers". Users of "markup" (who are not
> devs) are simply using pre-defined vocabularies defined by programmers.

why would you say vocabularies are defined by programmers? No doubt some
are, and it shows:-) but often (and ideally) the markup language is
explictly designed _without_ a programming basis. In order to capture
the important semanics that the language is designed to capture.

Different programs presumably then operate on that markup in different
ways, but that shouldn't necessarily be a design criterion of the
language. docbook is docbook whether it's implemented in dsssl or xslt
or built in to a proprietary editor.

David

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