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/ "Wayne Steele" <> was heard to say:
| My understanding of why SGML was so complicated was acknowledgement of
| this fact. That people wouldn't accept being told what is an
| acceptable delimiter for their semi-structured data and documents.
That's an interesting gloss. I think it probably had more to do with
UI technologies of the day and data input requirements, but I'm not a
historian.
| This also explains why XSLT has been such a successful and widely used
| technology. It embraces this truth, rather than fighting it.
What truth is that? There's nothing variable about the syntax of XSLT.
If you want a template, you type <xsl-prefix:template> and if you want
to select the value of something, you type <xsl-prefix:value-of
select="expression"/>.
| Syntax Matters. People don't want to be told what GIs to use in their XML.
That's clearly true.
Be seeing you,
norm
- --
| Through space the universe grasps me and
XML Standards Architect | swallows me up like a speck; through thought
Sun Microsystems, Inc. | I grasp it.--Pascal
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