Re: [xml-dev] more politics

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Dave Pawson <>
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John Cowan <>, Mike Champion <>
Date
2003-07-24T17:00:34Z
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Re: [xml-dev] more politics
At 21:10 23/07/2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

>There's no doubt that representations are what's emitted.
>The difference between Pat's 1) and 2) is whether GETting
>http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/Yosemite.html returns a representation
>of a *document about Yosemite* (reading 1) or whether it returns a
>representation of *Yosemite* (reading 2).  Either is plausible, but the
>difference is as fundamental as the difference between George Washington
>and a U.S. quarter.


Fundamental to whom John?
   Surely only to the philosophers?

The simpler view is that its bits and bytes that I only
really use as the browser screen rendering... in most cases.
    Alts are available, but on the pareto count it's as simple as that?

regards DaveP