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Re: XML character sets: a proposal
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:53:00 -0500
> From: Len Bullard <cbullard@HiWAAY.net>
>
> 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.
The current list of design criteria is available at:
<URL:http://www.textuality.com/sgml-erb/dd-1996-0001.html>.
9. XML documents shall be easy to create.
It should be a straightforward task ***(though possibly labor-intensive)***
to create valid XML documents by hand (i.e. without a validating
authoring tool). [emphasis added]
...
10. Terseness is of minimal importance.
Minimizing keystrokes is not deemed important in achieving any of the
above goals, but other things being equal a concise notation should be
preferred to a verbose.
SGML isn't going away. If you want all the features of SGML that make
hand creation convenient (like SHORTREF, SHORTTAG, OMITTAG and so on),
use SGML.
James
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