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Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: > > I find it disturbing that something such as XML which is about as "new > technology" as you can be is already suffering from so much > backward-compatibility and "historical reason" warts. XSL which has never > even seen version 1.0 is already showing these symptoms! This happens because XML is the target of intense politics and expensive development cycles. For instance the DOM should have been one of the last XML-family specs because it should be an API to all of the others. Instead it was the first because the market couldn't afford the ongoing bifurcation of "DHTML." -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "The Reduced * Set (R*S) is a design paradigm promoting simplicity over all other design constraints. R*S may be applied to all seven OSI networking layers. In fact, layers one through six may be simplified to the point of extinction, promoting the ultimate goal of reduced complexity and utility." - http://www.w3.org/1999/04/REC-Reduced-set 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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