Re: [xml-dev] InkML

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

clbullar@ingr.com (Bullard, Claude L (Len)) writes:
>Good call, Elliotte, on the con Leche review of the 
>InkML first draft. 

http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/

I can live with micro-parsing when there's a demonstrable benefit,
typically to humans, but lists of numbers?

<trace>
    10 0 9 14 8 28 7 42 6 56 6 70 8 84 8 98 8 112 9 126 10 140
    13 154 14 168 17 182 18 188 23 174 30 160 38 147 49 135
    58 124 72 121 77 135 80 149 82 163 84 177 87 191 93 205
</trace>

Wow.  Amazingly ingenious.

Maybe the TAG should take up the issue of sensible markup usage for W3C
specs rather than arguing about URIs.  Maybe that's building materials,
not architecture, but it seems like architects should be paying
attention to the materials they're using as well.

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