- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:58:08 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Cc: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 12 May 2003, Tantek [ISO-8859-1] Çelik wrote: > > Yet I can see no _need_ for a full fledged _CompML_. Thus the need chain is > broken and there is no need. > > Actually, I suppose I can see one need for a CompML: it would be the ideal > punishment for the hardcore "use XML for everything" crowd (AKA XML > fascists), [...] The very widely used DocBook markup language includes a huge number of computer-specific markup elements, including <accel>, <action>, <application>, <classname>, <classsynopsis>, <classsynopsisinfo>, <cmdsynopsis>, <command>, etc. See http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html XHTML and DocBook don't really overlap in terms of target audience -- in fact anyone asking for dozens of new elements in XHTML should probably be using DocBook, and anyone finding DocBook ridiculously over-engineered should probably be using XHTML. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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