Re: [xml-dev] patterns vs. identifiers

["Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>]

From: "Miles Sabin" <miles@milessabin.com>

> 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.

Surely a single simple statement like that is enough?  I don't think you
can weigh thase goals as if they are the results of a competition where
machines win 9:1 over humans.  

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe