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And an ASP page complete with multiple programming languages and syntaxes is a thing of beauty? We gotta get past this "ugly" thing. The authors of these texts are here with us and can help sort the English. The editor of ISO 8879 is an approachable guy. We really can approach these tasks as a global markup system task and keep all of the useful options alive. But if this starts out as a catfight over who can write the simplest sentence, we are all losers. len -----Original Message----- From: Frank Richards [mailto:frichards@s...] >>>Can someone please explain what, exactly, are the operative esthetic values that cause the AF solution to be perceived as ugly? I simply don't see it, and I've never seen it. <<< Well, like HyTime and ISO 8879 itself, AFs were presented to the world in horrible English (combining a poorly drafted statute with a needlessly convoluted academic paper) in a vocabulary based largely on tertiary meanings and backward senses of words. But other than that, like HyTime and SGML, they're cool. To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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