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It is like guitar tablature: easy to compose in and read for a guitar player, and therefore, it is useful. On the other hand, one never learns to read music or understand traditional theory, so advanced guitar students are weaned off it as early as possible because what they learn in guitar tablature doesn't transfer to other musical domains easily, so one remains a guitar player and does not become a musician. A bit over the top, but the point is valid. Ease can be bought at the price of general knowledge and skill. Addictions impose a cost on society. Compact syntaxes do as well. If one starts there, one ends up in the same cul de sac as VRML was prior to X3D if that syntax is used in an instance. Some VRMLers who have done quite a bit of VRML despise XML and aren't shy about saying it to the point of dissing X3D at every opportunity. Syntax is not trivial. len From: Mike Fitzgerald [mailto:mikefz@w...] In my experience, once you're familiar with RELAX NG, the compact syntax becomes natural -- to the point that you don't want to live without it. In fact, I suspect that any RNG aficionados would much prefer RNC and can't go back to the XML syntax for one reason: It's much quicker to develop schemas by hand, once you have RNG in you back pocket. And twice-blessed by Trang, which can translate RNC to DTD, RNG, or XML Schema, you don't get yourself painted in a corner. Except there is one problem: At a given point you are addicted. Strangely, though, all the RNC detox centers are empty. %^}
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