RE: [xml-dev] Markup perspective not code (wasRE: [xml-dev] Re: U RIs, concrete)

Yes, it could sing, but it required a masterly choir director.

I don't want to dump on Datalogics.  They drove the SGML 
train back when no one else was even building tracks.  It 
was an  excellent system that came along when print 
ruled the world and hypertext was for the lunatic fringe. 

XML is for hypermedia first.   We have a system that has 
a world scope.   The bigger the scope, the less one can 
withstand complexity.  It makes for a fragile system.

BTW: a leading light of DSSSL and XSLFO was James Clark 
who is indisputably, a programmer.  But you know that.

len

From: Mike Haarman [mailto:]

I can't do everything I could with Datalogics (I made that stinker sing, I
tell you, Len.) but it admirably embodies the 80/20 rule and makes wise
choices for defaults.