RE: [xml-dev] Common Word Processing Format

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'Uche Ogbuji' <>, "'Nathan Young -X (natyoung - Artizen at Cisco)'" <>
Date
2005-12-02T09:20:19
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] Common Word Processing Format
> 
> All arguments for XHTML everywhere eventually boil down to arguments
> that rather than 
> 
> <monty>
>   <python/>
> </monty>
> 
> I should write:
> 
> <div class="monty">
>   <span class="python"/>
> </div class"monty">
> 
> No bloody thank you.

I've recently seen people trying to use the latter approach for adding
extensibility to financial messages, in the apparent belief that writing
xs:any in a schema was somehow against the spirit of things.

But doesn't it come back to architectural forms? (Perhaps I'll understand
them one day...)

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