• To: Rob Lugt <roblugt@e...>
• Subject: Re: Suggestions for a slightly less verbose (and easier to author) XML
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:19:11 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• References: <016901c21af5$f5275320$0200a8c0@e...> <3D163BB5.31362495@p...> <01a201c21b00$de9127c0$0200a8c0@e...>

Rob Lugt wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Thanks for the link.  I didn't realize that Jon Bosak was the legendry
> "DPH".  I think that XML 1.x has already moved well beyond what most
> programmers are prepared to process with Perl regular expressions.  Surely
> Perl hackers use expat to do the hard work these days?

Well I never bought that argument to start with. I thought then and
think now that XML would have been better if it had allowed short
end-tags. But it doesn't matter. The conservatism of the installed base
will prevent any changes to XML. They were conservative about changes in
*1998*. I personally think you'd have more luck arguing for electoral
reform or democratic world government.

 Paul Prescod

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