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At 07:41 AM 2/6/2003 -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>3rd Option: Do nothing. Leave XML as it is. It works. It's proven. It's
>not perfect, but it's damn good, and hits a really nice middle point
>between the needs of many different communities. Don't trim it. Don't
>create alternate syntaxes. Just use it.
>
>Bottom line: the cost of creating alternate syntaxes or trimming XML at
>this stage vastly outweighs the benefits that would be achieved. Both
>these approaches are penny wise and pound foolish at best.
I agree.
Even if we had an SML that were significantly simpler than XML, living in a
world with both SML and XML is more complex than living in a world with
just XML.
Jonathan
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