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From: "David Megginson" <david@m...> > > W3C has violated a first-order principle of language design; that > > there should only be one way of doing something, such that everyone > > ought to devise the 'same' program to solve the 'same' problem. > It's clearly a principle rarely put into practice ( Its clearly a completely bogus principle! In fact, for markup languages the reverse is true: having more forms makes data capture and modeling easier because you can choose the form that requires the least work. E.g. (<![CDATA[ ]]> or & ) and (element or attribute) and (<x></x> or <x/>) and ( y="z" or y='z'). The other bogus principle is that there should only be one syntax for everything. Looking at the triumph of the C family over the LISP family, it is more likely that people prefer a variety of embedded syntaxes which serve to indicate semantics or role graphically. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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