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True. Once again around the wheel that is SGML. I've been researching work where it is suggested that some network effects should be managed by the Federal authorities. Now that the Internet is being returned to its original mission, that may have legs. Those that were in will be out and those that were out will be in again. How perfectly Moebic. BTW: I noted your comment on the blog over the holidays. XML is imperfect and so is SGML. What I am noting is that I am more comfortable with the XMLers managing the evolution than I was when it started. They are finally demonstrating the experience needed to make better decisions and so little is left of the SGML community, it can't manage network effects to pareto optima. When any company or organization realizes that say 30% or more of its members are within five years of retirement, it has to pass the baton. In the case of XML, the baton was wrested perhaps a bit too early, but that smoothed out. This thread is a good example of the new generation finally confronting the nastier problems they used to claim weren't important, or one might say, the final 20% that bites when the missions become critical. So far, so good. They have to be quicker though. The Internet as we've known it is as old as SGML and also on the verge of being retired and repurposed. len From: Arjun Ray [mailto:arjun.ray@v...] On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 02:11 -0500, hhalpin@i... wrote: > Then, it seems at least as XML is concerned, is that those of us who > think typing is useful (albeit a small minority on this list) would > like to see some good, extensible type system (although no-one seems > to have any good ideas on this list) Time to reinvent notations, perhaps badly.
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