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- From: Marcus Carr <mrc@allette.com.au>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:52:17 +1000
Tim Bray wrote:
> If the answer was easy, it would be in the XML spec. It turns out to
> be very nearly impossible to write a set of rules that are useful
> across different application spaces and are still comprehensible to
> human beings. SGML fell apart completely in this area, and the people
> who wrote that were smart.
I think "fell apart completely" is a bit strong, but I do agree that whitespace handling
occasionally resulted in problems. In SGML we got used to overcoming them, as I'm sure we will
in XML.
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Regards,
Marcus Carr email: mrc@allette.com.au
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