• To: clbullar@i... ("Bullard, Claude L (Len)")
• Subject: Re: Subtyping in XML
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:54:54 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: aray@n... ('Arjun Ray'), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B914@HQ5> from "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" at Sep 09, 2002 11:50:20 AM

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> 
> Oh well... I guess we'll put together a 
> tomb robbing party sooner or later.
> XML is YetAnotherNotation.  I wonder 
> how hieroglyph engravers kept it all 
> consistent.

They didn't, and it would be surprising if they had done so, what with
a three-thousand-year time depth and a vocabulary of thousands of signs.
Chinese is almost as old and has lots more signs, but is also more systematic
and has a more unified tradition.

-- 
John Cowan                              <jcowan@r...>
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              http://www.reutershealth.com
                Charles li reis, nostre emperesdre magnes,
                Set anz totz pleinz ad ested in Espagnes.

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