RE: [xml-dev] Re: determining ID-ness in XML

["Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:01 PM
> To: Tom Bradford
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re: determining ID-ness in XML
> 
> 
> > > You may be confusing the XML standard with what Microsoft does
> > > in some of their implementations.
> > 
> > Ehem...  Don't insult me.  Seriously.
> 
> Microsoft _has_ defined validation differently, and much the same
> way you have.  They've taught people, who've taught people, ...
> 
> It puzzles me how (why) you would construe that as an insult.
> Seriously.

Methinks Tom was directing his ire at Mr. Gates and crew, not you [David
Brownell]. One has to assume a certain level of irony in Tom's posts ...
Shesh, he tried to blame all the kludginess in the DOM on me recently :~)