Re: [xml-dev] reaching humans (was Re: [xml-dev] Extract A Subset of a W3C XML Schema?)

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> 
>  (james anderson) writes:
> >despite the truism, that the generic identifer is just a special
> >attribute, what is the advantage to making the universal depend on the
> >ideosyncratic?
> 
> That it's local.

not everywhere.

> 
> I guess I just don't value the universal enough to participate in your
> world.

but you would agree to the advantage of "<ol>" over ".TB 4", to go back thirty
years (http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/AnnexA.htm), and admit the advantages
of CSS over the HTML 1.0 rendering model? the issuses are the same.

> 
> >> >is /@ that much more difficult than / ?
> >>
> >> What language are you speaking?  If that's XPath, I didn't think we
> >> were in the classic elements/attributes tussle.
> >
> >think again.
> 
> I guess you're not fond of architectural forms either?

i don't understand how anything i wrote would imply that.

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