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Re: [xml-dev] Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"

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To: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@STJUDE.ORG>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"
From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:46:31 -0400
Cc: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>,Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
> Not to say it's a bad archive format, just to say that I don't
> see why it stands the test of long term usability necessarily better
> than any other format.  XML parsers may be just a curious artifact of
> the past in 20 years...

But I don't need a parser to read element and attribute names, and see 
how things nest.

For archival purposes, of course, the simpler the markup, the better.

Jonathan

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