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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:21 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Maybe. Maybe not. Watch Intellisense turn an XML comment
> into a left pointy dash and a right arrow. Then you care.
> It's about documentation and reliability. I expected what
> I entered to stay as I entered it; the app had other ideas.
> That's the sort of thing I mean.
In which case you should know better, or to be precise
you should know that Redmond knows better than you what you want!
Come on Len, get with it <grin/>
It's a common cry with 'intelligent' tools.
(no, you define intelligent)
> >It's the data that matters. [Insert your own quote here]
> >Not the (todays) app that generates it.
> >That's the winner for XML I think.
>
> For XML yes, but not when we begin debating common formats,
> common frameworks for them, etc.
Is this where we cry that XML == what we used to do with ASCII?
I wasn't thinking as high off the ground as you Len.
Given Frame, PDF, ps, paper, Quark to convert,
I guess I'm ecstatic when I see XML.... unless its
generated as a byproduct of some print engine acting
like an A0 plotter on LSD.
There ought to be a name for that class of XML...
> All sides at the table have a piece to speak. I want to hear them
> and that usually mean shutting off my filters or causes. The
> reason for keeping this thread going after the Atlanta town hall
> is to get more issues up front. Uche needs and wants his independence
> and he gets what he wants. XML is made that way. The admin needs
> those productivity features. Uche may get in her/his way. MS is
> trying to keep their customers happy and make money. Some want to
> take some shine off their dollars. Lots of sides, but not all of
> those are issues, just sides. An admin may not want to use an
> XML structured editor. Given what I saw in early versions of
> .Net programming tools, I don't either. They didn't work very
> well.
>
> So miles to go and all that.
I'll agree with that.
Needed, some bright spark to see through the crud
to what users want?
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Regards,
Dave Pawson
XSLT + Docbook FAQ
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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