OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

 


 

   Re: [xml-dev] +names--

[ Lists Home | Date Index | Thread Index ]

At 9:26 AM -0400 10/21/03, Norman Walsh wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>/ Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> was heard to say:
>| done."  This leaves the question of whether it *should* be done.  At
>| this point the head-count in the "contra" column is larger than in the
>| "pro" column, among those who speak up at least.
>
>Just to be counted: contra.
>

Ditto. Contra also. While I was very impressed by the hack that 
allowed this without requiring a revision of XML, I agree that human 
factors suggest it should not be adopted. It would just be too damned 
confusing trying to explain this to everyone.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@metalab.unc.edu
   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA




 

News | XML in Industry | Calendar | XML Registry
Marketplace | Resources | MyXML.org | Sponsors | Privacy Statement

Copyright 2001 XML.org. This site is hosted by OASIS