• To: clbullar@i... ("Bullard, Claude L (Len)")
• Subject: Re: Subtyping in XML
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... ('John Cowan'), aray@n..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B919@HQ5> from "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" at Sep 09, 2002 03:24:14 PM

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> 
> Ahh yes; the hostile takeover scenario.  Understood.

I don't think so, actually.  Ancient conquerers typically didn't want to
impose their language and culture on the conquered: it just paid for
the conquered to learn.  Writing Coptic in Greek letters didn't make it
one bit more intelligible to Greeks, but for Egyptians who weren't scribes
it was a powerful technology.

> I was hoping for pluggable profiles myself.

Exactly what RELAX NG provides.

-- 
"No, John.  I want formats that are actually       John Cowan
useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that   http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
address all questions by piling on ridiculous      http://www.reutershealth.com
internal links in forms which are hideously        jcowan@r...
over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev

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