• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: 06 Jan 2000 19:12:54 -0500

"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> writes:

> XML's cross-platform/cross-application nature seems to call for more
> consistency, not less, but that doesn't seem to be the way things go
> all the time.

Junk in standards is like rat feces in chocolate bars -- there's
always going to be some, but we try to keep it to a minimum.  Think of
ANSI C trigraphs, XML unparsed entities, and Unicode combining
characters, three things that nobody but the
hard-core-I'm-going-to-prove-they're-useful-if-it-kills-me zealots are
ever going to use.


All the best,


David

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