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Re: Data vs. Process was Re: Vocabulary Combination

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• Subject: Re: Data vs. Process was Re: Vocabulary Combination ...
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 17:04:34 -0400
• In-reply-to: <041b01c327b6$b0d77ff0$b6f5d3ce@L565>

jonathan@o... (Jonathan Borden) writes:
>> [Miles Sabin]
>> Horror! Programmers prefer processes (which at least move around a 
>> bit) to cold dead propositions!
>
>That is true, but we need to remember that the XML community is not
>exclusively composed of programmers -- the concept of marking up a
>document originated with folks who read and edit documents.

Odd.  The markup side of me is happy to hear Jonathan say that. 

At the same time, though, the programmer in me finds Jonathan's
preferred solution of ontologies, though declarative, to intrude too
deeply into my choices about processing, and that reminds the markup
side that ontologies feel both constrictive and heavyweight.

Oh well.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org

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