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Re: [xml-dev] Being "precise" vs being "human"

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Being "precise" vs being "human"
From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:06:42 -0500
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On Tuesday 22 January 2002 04:01 pm, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> I don't think we've begun to address the possibilities of XML's
> relatively easy 'lexical' level, so I'll leave semantics to the rest
> of you brave warriors.

Hmm. I've been feeling kind of like we threw the baby out with the 
bathwater recently... XML was originally supposed to offer better 
text/hypertext features to the WWW, but we seem to have missed that 
point...

References:
- Being "precise" vs being "human"
  - From: "Clark C . Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>
- Re: [xml-dev] Being "precise" vs being "human"
  - From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Re: [xml-dev] Being "precise" vs being "human"
  - From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>

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