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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > At 10:57 AM 1/29/99 -0800, Dave Winer wrote: > >>>it's simple enough for neophytes to walk up to and explore > > > >You gotta be kidding! > > I'm not kidding, not at all, though I can definitely understand why you'd > think that. > > The < > syntax is familiar to anyone who's ever used HTML. Basic element > and attribute structures aren't that hard to learn. Validation, as long as > you stick to describing element and attribute structures, really isn't that > hard either. > > The more subtle parts of XML are awfully damn hard, certainly - I think > pretty much everyone is still learning. But the basic syntax, the material > you really need to know to apply it to a very large core set of problems, > isn't very hard. > > The standard certainly obfuscates it, but basic XML really isn't that > complicated. 'XML in a Day' isn't an impossible dream by any means, as > long as you start with the friendly part, not the complicated bits. And > how many people really want to use the complicated bits anyway? > > There's a long learning curve ahead of users as far as best practices, but > I don't think XML itself should be very scary. I really wish that everybody had this sort of attitude in evangelizing XML, in fact I share this opinion deeply and would not be using XML in the first place if I did not feel that XML is "simple enough for neophytes to walk up to and explore". But then again, I am in the minority of programmers out there who think that computer related topics should be understandable by others than just the gods of computerdom so now I will crawl back into my little shell (-: Tyler 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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