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Paul Prescod wrote: > > Bruce T. Smith wrote: > > I think Len's reaction is a bit extreme. I may debug in ASCII with line > > numbers, but I don't edit with ed or EDLIN. If I wanted to hack lots of > > HTML or SGML or VRML with a text editor, I'd choose emacs or some other > > editor that was aware of syntactic structures. > > Sure, but Emacs does not hide verbosity. The complaint with XML-DATA is > primarily verbosity. All of the XML syntax buries the information. The > more dense the information you are working with, the smaller you want > your delimiters. XML tags are <LOOOOONG>, <VERBOSE> delimiters. Right. This is precisely the comment made about SGML DTDs for structured procedural scripting languages. They are "ugly" to look at if one has been a C programmer, and really nasty to type. Witness MID: worked like a charm. Really hard on the typist until reusable framgments emerged. MIL-D-87289 is another example. In fact, many of the modular DTDs that used element name hierarchies to simulate object-qualities had this problem. Colonized namespaces probably will as well. len xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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