- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:37:52 -0700
Ben Adida wrote: > It's important to note that, in our experience and in our design, the > level of indirection is a feature, not a bug. One rarely uses a > vocabulary for just one property. In my experience, that level of indirection is a disaster. It is the single most problematic part of XML as practiced. It destroyed XPointer. It takes what should be a simple, atomic value and makes it context dependent. I'm surprised you want to reinvent that particular mistake. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Refactoring HTML Just Published! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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