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Simon St.Laurent scripsit: > "mind-bogglingly annoying" seems like an adequate description of the > situation, even for those of us who aren't using XML Schema. The > separation between structure and content description is critical, but > the "spare parts left over" approach seems like a bad idea generally. If we were defining a markup language de novo, like LMNL, that would be a reasonable answer. We aren't. There's a mechanism in place, no matter how much some people hate it, that *does the job*. It may be awkward, annoying, or funny-looking. That doesn't make the case for inventing a new mechanism, still less looking up like a bunch of sheep and expecting someone else to invent it -- and then grumbling about secret processes and dictatorial WGs. (Okay, it's Friday afternoon and there's no heat in my house.) -- John Cowan jcowan@r... "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know
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