RE: The lists I monitor

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Title: RE: The lists I monitor

HTML removed diversity of names.  It enables

very large distribution of certain kinds of messages.

 

Message and message type are two different items.

XML returns the ability to diverge and overlap in

message types.

 

XML returns diversity but constrains the environment

of expression. 

 

Constraints:  Well-formedness seemed to be the

maximum one could relax the constraints on

expression while still retaining the substantial advantages

of lexical unification.   Essentially, the SGML Declaration

was nailed down to one.   SGML enables a lot of diversity

but no one can afford it.  It becomes an entropy problem

of sorts in which the inability to afford to speack all of

the variant languages fractures and isolates the systems.

 

I'm not too much into "We Are The Web".  I find such

thinking dangerous.  It gives too much authority to faceless

names.  On the other hand, we are people and when we

find it useful and advantageous to hold hands and dance,

nothing in our systems should prevent that.  And when

we find a suitable willing partner, we must have the freedom

to dance in privately.   XML enables that decision and

a much cheaper room.

 

"We'll leave a light on for you."

Len
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h

-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson, John [mailto:John@Barbadosoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:41 AM
To: 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
Subject: RE: The lists I monitor

Wasn't the whole point of XML to remove diversity so we could all join hands and dance together as one big happy web enabled platform independent family?

Or am I oversimplifying things a bit . . .

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven R. Newcomb [mailto:srn@coolheads.com]
Sent: 07 May 2001 23:20
To: simonstl@simonstl.com
Cc: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: The lists I monitor

[Simon St.Laurent:]
> I don't know whether XSDSchema will make it, but I tend to find the
> conversation on non-W3C mailing lists to have a really different tone than
> that on W3C mailing lists.  It's a kind of diversity I'd rather see
> supported than scorned.

Charles Darwin and many others agree: diversity is survival.

-Steve

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