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Yes, it could sing, but it required a masterly choir director.
I don't want to dump on Datalogics. They drove the SGML
train back when no one else was even building tracks. It
was an excellent system that came along when print
ruled the world and hypertext was for the lunatic fringe.
XML is for hypermedia first. We have a system that has
a world scope. The bigger the scope, the less one can
withstand complexity. It makes for a fragile system.
BTW: a leading light of DSSSL and XSLFO was James Clark
who is indisputably, a programmer. But you know that.
len
From: Mike Haarman [mailto:mhaarma@socsci.umn.edu]
I can't do everything I could with Datalogics (I made that stinker sing, I
tell you, Len.) but it admirably embodies the 80/20 rule and makes wise
choices for defaults.
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