- From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:59:36 -0400
- To: Chris Maden <crism@oreilly.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 02:49 PM 6/11/99 -0400, Chris Maden wrote: >I think, though I'm not sure, that you're responding to Charles and >Ann's discussion about > > <!ELEMENT sundae ...> > >The point of the discussion here was *not* about building sundaes, but >about XML DTDs, using a hypothetical sundae markup language as an >example. The question is how can (or even should) this be made >understandable to the cognitively impaired. Illustrations will not >suffice, because the purpose of the discussion is to teach someone how >and when to type less-than exclamation E L E M E N T space [some >element type name] space [some specialized syntax for the content of >that element type]. Charles did a pretty good job of simplifying the >discussion, but at the cost of omitting key terms that are necessary >for communicating about the concept outside the scope of that >particular discourse. *Exactly*. Ann --- Author of Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Buy it Online - http://www.webgeek.com/about.html Coming this summer! --- Mastering XML Founder, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Director, HWG Online Education http://www.hwg.org/classes
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