- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:16:51 -0500
James Graham wrote: > For example, the majority of people who are likely to want to > publish mathematics on the web are professional scientists or engineers. > However, in my experience, the fraction of such people who are competent > to reliably produce valid XML is tiny[1]. > [1] See, for example > http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000564.html for one of > the few examples of where a scientist (who happens to also know an awful > lot about markup) /has/ managed to work with XML, and to see just how > far from "Hello world" it really is. > That's an interesting and useful story. Thanks for the link. However what it describes is not close to hand authoring code. Instead, this competent person is patching a specific blogging engine. That's a much bigger task. However: 1. He is competent to do it. 2. It only has to be done once. Then it just works for everyone else.* * Well at least it does if the main developers accept the patches back into the trunk. It seems they haven't done that: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000865.html -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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