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RE: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)

• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:20:55 -0600
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Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] wrote:

...
> I don't think that set of problems is particularly productive, nor do
I
> consider questioning the use of the feature to be some kind of
"purist",
> "ivory tower", or "academic" crusade.  The relationship between XML as
> text and XML as data structure is pretty well screwed up as it is, and
> shouting about hordes of developers who don't care does very little
for
> conversations about that relationship.

Good to have you back Simon. ;-)

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Aaron Skonnard <http://skonnard.com>, DevelopMentor <http://develop.com>
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like
practical life, and if you don't use the stuff -  well, it might as well
be dead. - arnold toynbee 

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