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Re: Build Rich Complexity from a Small Set of Well-Defined Mar

• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
• To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
• Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:58:05 -0400

> What makes XSD complicated is the irregularity of the rules.

Put another way, it's about the orthogonality of the items.  Like why the 
PDP-11 instruction set is "better" than 8080 and descendants.

        /r$

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• References:
  • Build Rich Complexity from a Small Set of Well-Defined MarkupCombinators
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Build Rich Complexity from a Small Set ofWell-Defined Markup Combinators
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>