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At 02:56 PM 9/17/99 +0200, Paul Prescod wrote: >Ann Navarro wrote: >> >> I'm arguing that each flavor of XHTML is sufficiently different (idiom, >> dialect, what have you) that it deserves a different namespace. > >Don't fall into this trap. Once we start quantifying differences based >on percentages of shared idioms we are into the land of voodoo >standardization. > >We have three grammars. According to Chomsky and "formal languages 201" >this means we have three languages. I'll be happy to discard Chomsky >(what has he done for me LATELY) if someone comes up with something >better. Noted, and I agree. I suppose I was trying to use the language being tossed around, and in doing so, have pointed out even to myself how weak those labels are in the discussion at hand. Ann --- Author of Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Coming in September --- Mastering XML Founder, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Director, HWG Online Education http://www.hwg.org/services/classes 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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