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"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> wrote: | You insist that the Web needs a total cleanup, perhaps a rebirth, | before it's worthy of further consideration. Actually, no. The problem with "SGML on the web" is with the article "the". One could think about "SGML on a web", and work towards it, but the idea SGML/XML can coexist on the same web is a geeky delusion. The social phenomenon being ignored is Gresham's Law ("cheap currency drives out the dear".) | I'm not entirely sure why you expect Web developers to drop everything | and rush to the SGML model. That's just it. I don't. | (I'm not entirely sure why you find describing margins in CSS as | something opposed to your "visions", either.) Perhaps I should marvel at the "thinking about structure", or perhaps at the grasp thereof, that went into class names such as "fourhundred" and "fifty" and "orangebox". Oh, I get it. Do as they say, not as they do, right? | Coming from the other side, I've always felt the Web had as much to | teach the SGML folks as the other way around. Agreed. | That notion seems to have gone over badly since the response to my very | first post here[1], however. This puzzles me. Were you suggesting that CDATA declared content is a useful feature? (If only to rationalize inlining of scripts in a way that required no smarts on the part of browser vendors?) | I suspect we'd agree, however, that the synthesis at the W3C is rarely | what I'd like. You're right.
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