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Re: XML character sets: a proposal
James Clark wrote:
>
> XML isn't intended to be convenient to create by hand with a text
> editor. People are mostly expected to be using SGML/XML editors to
> create.
I don't remember seeing that design criteria, James. Being able
to do SGML by hand is a reason to do SGML. Surprising numbers
of people do exactly this. Again, we should not break existing
tools, among them, text editors. Convenience is relative, of course,
but if XML is *difficult* to do by hand, I don't see that as a
strength. That is where the heuristic of "convenience of
implementation"
might have too much emphasis.
len bullard
lockheed-martin
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