I nominate these xml-dev postings as two of the all-time great postings

Hi Folks,

I nominate the below xml-dev postings as two of the all-time great postings.  /Roger


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Henry Thompson 
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     "Why is text marked up" ? 

   To make explicit for mechanical processing what is
    implicit-but-evident in the original.


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Michael Sperberg-McQueen 
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    One of the great themes of computer science over the last 
    sixty years has been the long-running campaign to move more 
    and more things out of the "must be checked by eyeball" / 
    semantics area, and into the "can readily be checked by 
    machine" / syntax area.

  

Henry Thompson's post:  http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/201201/msg00078.html

Michael Sperberg-McQueen's post:  http://www.oxygenxml.com/archives/xml-dev/200902/msg00158.html