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   RE: Inline markup considered harmful?

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  • From: Robin Cover <robin@isogen.com>
  • To: "DuCharme, Robert" <DuCharmR@moodys.com>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:57:04 -0500 (CDT)


On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, DuCharme, Robert wrote:

> For those who are interested in learning more, Ted Nelson's essay
> "Embedded Markup Considered Harmful" is included in the O'Reilly/W3C
> 1997 book "XML Principles, Tools and Techniques."

For those not familiar with the utter brilliance of Ted
Nelson (the world should have a few more like him!) see
for example

  "Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm,
   Expressed as One-Liners"

http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html

Among which we find:

   Trying to fix HTML is like trying to graft arms and legs
   onto hamburger.  There's got to be something better -- but
   XML is the same thing and worse.  EMBEDDED MARKUP IS A CANCER. 

(see the "HTML" section)

*apologies for failing to use transquotation strings (TQstrings)
 as required by the Transcopyright

-rcc



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