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RE: [xml-dev] 3 XML Design Principles - a rebuttal

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To: "'Chiusano Joseph'" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>,"'Christian Nentwich'" <christian@systemwire.com>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] 3 XML Design Principles - a rebuttal
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:31:36 -0000
Cc: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@mitre.org>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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> information is ultimately persisted in a receiving system 

I do hate "persist" as a transitive verb. Not only because it's not in the
dictionary as such, but because it's such a perversion of Malcolm Atkinson's
original concept that instead of programs reading and writing data, they
should simply declare the data to be persistent.

Data persists, it isn't persisted.

Sorry to go off at a tangent...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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- RE: [xml-dev] 3 XML Design Principles - a rebuttal
  - From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>

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