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RE: some days I'm wrong

• To: "'DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)'" <bob.ducharme@l...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: some days I'm wrong
• From: Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@c...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:57:03 -0700

> The most important point is that we shouldn't generalize that XML compact
> syntaxes are good because RNC is good. No one should use RNC to justify
> their own compact syntax; they must justify their compact syntax on its
> own
> terms.

How about we all just agree that in practice all such compact syntaxes must
have an XML translation and a reference tool to do the translating?  

True, if you're on an oddball platform that the reference tool doesn't
support, you'll have to write your own translator; that could lead to
incompatible translations.  Nonetheless, these sorts of incompatibility
issues crop up in pure XML tools right now.  

It's not a perfect world, I'm afraid. Probably a good thing for most of us.

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