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   Re: [xml-dev] patterns vs. identifiers

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Simon St.Laurent wrote,
> To put it another more amusing way, RDF is inhuman.  XML at least
> tries to balance human and computer approaches to information.  Then
> Namespaces in XML came along - oh, the humanity!

I'm obviously missing something, because of the ten design goals listed 
at the the top of the XML REC only one, "XML documents should be 
human-legible and reasonably clear", speaks to humanity. The bulk of 
the remainder address automated processing and the needs of 
programmers.

I think you've been seeing more human-friendliness than was ever really 
intended to be there.

Cheers,


Miles




 

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