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Re: Blueberry is not "closed" (was: Closing Blueberry)
- From: Joel Rees <rees@server.mediafusion.co.jp>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:56:44 +0900
Elliotte Rusty Harold expounded:
> Blueberry would change the definition of the XML language, not
> just the specification. While every document that is a well-
> formed XML 1.0 document will still be a well-formed Blueberry
> document, many documents that are not well-formed XML 1.0
> documents will be well-formed Blueberry documents. It would be
> a bad thing to try to sweep this change under the rug and
> pretend we always meant to do this.
The practical mathematician in me wonders why such a thing should require
pretense. <observation>While it is true that good design often wears
well</observation>, <axiom>no artifact of mortal beings can hope to undure
long unchanged</axiom>.
Joel Rees
programmer -- rees@mediafusion.co.jp
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