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RE: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot?

• To: 'Sean McGrath' <sean.mcgrath@p...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:59:43 -0600

Bingo.   One of the first and primary 
reasons for going to markup was to free 
information from the application.  It is 
a principle that should be in the preface 
of every book that teaches XML.  It isn't 
about separating content from formatting, 
but data from process, and information from 
the processor.

len


From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@p...]

I want to it to be possible for me to work with a textual representation of that
information asset. Otherwise, I don't own it - it is owned by
the app that created it. Bad.

GUIs are perhaps the biggest culprit in lulling people into
handing over true ownership of their information assets.

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