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Re: ten years later, time to repeat it?

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:50:08 -0000

----- Original Message From: "Eric van der Vlist"

> When people say "XML is hard", they usually do not mean "XML 1.0 is
> hard" but "XML 1.0 + namespaces in XML + XPath + DOM + XSLT + W3C XML
> Schema + XML Base + xml:id + XInclude + XPointer + ... is hard" and the
> proportion of criticism that goes to XML 1.0 itself is usually pretty
> low. In other words, I don't think that subsetting only XML 1.0 (or even
> only XML 1.0 + namespaces) would be very useful.

So I'm wondering, what do others think of as XML when Simon says 
"...creating a subset of XML..."?

Pete Cordell
Codalogic
Visit http://www.codalogic.com/lmx/ for XML C++ data binding

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