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From: "David Megginson" <david@megginson.com>
> > W3C has violated a first-order principle of language design; that
> > there should only be one way of doing something, such that everyone
> > ought to devise the 'same' program to solve the 'same' problem.
> It's clearly a principle rarely put into practice (
Its clearly a completely bogus principle! In fact, for markup languages
the reverse is true: having more forms makes data capture and modeling
easier because you can choose the form that requires the least work.
E.g. (<![CDATA[ ]]> or & ) and (element or attribute) and
(<x></x> or <x/>) and ( y="z" or y='z').
The other bogus principle is that there should only be one syntax for everything.
Looking at the triumph of the C family over the LISP family, it is more
likely that people prefer a variety of embedded syntaxes which serve to indicate
semantics or role graphically.
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
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