At 9:26 AM -0400 10/21/03, Norman Walsh wrote:
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>/ Tim Bray <> was heard to say:
>| done." This leaves the question of whether it *should* be done. At
>| this point the head-count in the "contra" column is larger than in the
>| "pro" column, among those who speak up at least.
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>Just to be counted: contra.
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Ditto. Contra also. While I was very impressed by the hack that
allowed this without requiring a revision of XML, I agree that human
factors suggest it should not be adopted. It would just be too damned
confusing trying to explain this to everyone.
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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
