• To: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Subject: Re: The triples datamodel -- was Re: SemanticWeb permathread, iteration n+1
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:26:07 -0500
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Michael Kay wrote:
 >>IMHO, XML's biggest mistake was to make validation optional.
 >
 > I sense a general law here. For every successful technology T, T's 
biggest
 > mistake was the feature that made T successful.
 >
 > For example, Java's biggest mistake was trying to make the language
 > compatible with C.

And XSLT's biggest mistake was XML syntax?

Bob Foster
http://xmlbuddy.com/

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