For what it's worth I don't think you were wrong. I personally find
the RELAX NG XML syntax *much* easier to read, understand, and write
than the compact syntax. Perhaps that's a function of my relative
unfamiliarity with RELAX NG compared to you, but that's the point of
XML's verboseness, isn't it? It's easier for a non-expert to
understand any given format.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
