It's amazing what can happen if we have a worthy cause and stick to it faithfully: Some people do respect that and will respond to it very posititvely. ---- Stephen D Green On 7 September 2012 03:39, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > Stephen D Green scripsit: > > > Should I detect here an aim towards a grand unification (HTML / XHTML / > > XML) facilitated via MicroXML? That seems to me a very worthy cause: > > Idenitfy those minimal changes needed to achieve such unification (what > > needs to be removed from XML and from HTML to achieve convergence - > > let XML drop things to get MicroXML and let HTML relax a few things > > such as the DOCTYPE declaration and maybe the prefixes on attributes > > in the SVG component). > > In my opinion, there is nothing we can do to affect either the HTML > juggernaut or the XML monolith. The one moves on regardless, and the > other remains the same regardless. > > -- > Evolutionary psychology is the theory John Cowan > that men are nothing but horn-dogs, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > and that women only want them for their money. cowan@ccil.org > --Susan McCarthy (adapted) >
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