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RE: Partyin' like it's 1999

• To: "John L. Clark" <jclark@n...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Partyin' like it's 1999
• From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:01:06 -0500
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• Thread-topic: Partyin' like it's 1999

John L. Clark <jlc6@p...> writes:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:22:22PM -0500, Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
> > > > Ok.  Any parties interested in posting their favorite five bad 
> > > > problems with XML in order here?  I wonder what the 
> consensus is 
> > > > on the top two.  (XML, not XML apps like
> > > > XSD.)
> 
> Man, how can I resist the "come up with your own list!" urge?
> 
> > Since I don't have to write any tools to actually support DTDs they 
> > actually sort of, almost, help me more than they hinder.  Maybe Len 
> > needs to divide the question between two (more?) camps: 1) 
> XML users, 
> > 2) XML tool builders?
> 
> I think this might be a useful distinction.  I think I 
> primarily fall into the former category.  Here's my shot at a list:
> 
>     1. Only one tree per file allowed
>     2. Limitations of trees on expression[0]
>     3. Remembering XML namespace *URI values*
>     4. Getting character references right
>     5. Lack of nesting of comments
> 
> Take care,
> 
>     John L. Clark
> 
> [0] For (a very simple introductory) example, I can't say the 
> following:
> 
>         <p>Some content, <em>some of which is emphasized, <ins>and
>         furthermore,</em> some of which has been recently
>         inserted.</ins></p>
> 
>     Where the "elements" have "the same" semantics as in HTML, only I
>     want to express the addition of content across an element 
> boundary.    
> 

Hah.  Welcome to the "After Xquery, are we done?" thread and the
discussion on tree's vs. graphs...

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