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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Steve Newcomb <srn@coolheads.com> wrote:
With the greatest respect, John, I see it quite differently. I believe this is the right principle, but just as priests have been seeing their flocks dwindle in the past century, so have the priests of markup. Developers are more interested in drugs, hook-ups and rising to the top of their nearest kleptocapitalistic corporation than achieving any higher purpose. Shouldn't really surprise us.
It's probably best to switch from Latin to demotic, do a savage editing of the liturgy, and accept 5% tithes rather than 10%. That's kinda what we'e attempting to do with MicroXML, and though there is definitely a heresy to it for some churches, I think it's just a matter of trying to at least salvage a bit of the sanctified, perhaps just the beatitudes and the golden rule, to do some good in the modern world.
What you see as elegance, I see as beautifully-wrought art based on the In my experience non-technical people are much more likely to make sense of RNC than DTD. One of the most palpable manifestations I ever saw of this phenomenon was on a project at Sun Microsystems (RIP), when I converted a content model from DTD to RNG and was amazed at the gratitude I earned from everyone who had to deal with it, which included a surprising number of middle management types (let's just say the "blame" command was sometimes executed during a conference call).
(I freely admit it's a bitch to parse. But natural language is much Amen to this last paragraph. Amen, I say! Amen! I said "can I get a witness!" and the heavens delivered! :)
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