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"I'll have you know I voted _for_ devolution, so there :-)!" And all they gave you was an old rock they took without asking. How long do you think it would take to get a complete infoSet done so we can move on? The long loopbacks are costly but will be moreso if something isn't done. Polishing an old chair waiting for the rock for few centuries is a drain on the castle staff. Firmer ground is needed but Perry isn't wrong about keeping XML 1.0, essentially just syntax. "Well-formedness" (separation of parse and validation, James Clark's words) really is the original thing that XML has brought to this party and that has enabled a lot of progress. If we are going to talk about the "is-ness" of an "XML document", I don't want to throw out the good parts. Humans do still have to read this stuff. I don't care if the only bit they read is the stuff inside the pointy brackets; I do care if the implementation hides stuff they need to know is there. Namespaces have been painful because of that. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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