Re: atoms, molecules

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com> writes:

> At 08:25 PM 4/17/01 -0400, Steve Rosenberry wrote:
> >Noah's main justification against the proposal came down to this:
> >
> >===
> >
> >"The XML Recommendation itself is very clear that [1]: "Terseness in XML
> >markup is of minimal importance."  While individual cases require
> >judgment, it seems a mistake in general to try and use schemas to undo
> >this stylistic decision. ...
> >
> >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-origin-goals"
> 
> Uh, okay, so why not require everyone to use markup like:
> <date><year>1970</year><month>11</month><day>25</day></date>

We should have, in my opinion.

ht
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