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   Re: Don't Connect the Dots

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  • From: Robin Berjon <robin@knowscape.com>
  • To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:02:30 -0400

At 15:40 16/06/2000 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Somewhere in my dim memory I recall an 
>argument about using periods in generic 
>identifers and why that is a bad thing 
>in XML while not forbidden.  Can someone 
>please enlighten me with an explanation or URL 
>to this notion?
>
><confused.notion></confused.notion>

The only thing that comes to my mind is that you probably won't be able to
use CSS properly with such tags (at least, identifier in the stylesheet
would have chances of being ambiguous).



-- robin b.
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to
suspect Hungry.


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