[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re

• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:01:12 +1100
• References: <BKELLDAGKABIOCHDFDBPCEFECCAA.danny666@v...> <E18qsWv-0006cv-00@c...> <013a01c2e3cf$96752430$4bc8a8c0@A...> <E18qtIq-0007Yn-00@c...>

From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>

> Ahah! Now I understand!
> 
> This support for hiding meaningful information in comments where no schema 
> can mandate it is a bid by the infoset-haters to discredit anything that 
> transports infosets! :-)

Ha. 

Actually, I think it reflects a hoary and practical guideline common when doing
text processing in organic stages: "never throw anything entirely away".   For example,
to prefer commenting sections out rather than deleting them. (In XML we
only have comments to do this, in its predecessor so-horrible-it-cannot-be-named-
among-civilized-folk-lest-the-mewling-infants-turn-green we could mark sections
IGNORE.)  

I suppose that if schemas were written to support a <crap> tag, people could use
that for much the same purpose, but they don't: and standards committees are usually
about how to say some information is interesting, not how to say some information
is probably uninteresting, so I don't foresee an OASIS group to standardize <crap>.
Perhaps it could be taken on by some existing working group in some organization 
with a suitable track record. 

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

• References:
  • RE: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?
    • From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
  • Re: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
  • Re: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
  • Re: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>

• Prev by Date: RE: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
• Next by Date: RE: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
• Previous by thread: Re: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
• Next by thread: Re: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread