- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:55:19 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> There are a lot of changes I'd like to see happen to CSS - the first > being to get it into XML! > There are those of us in the community who think XML is a bad technology done badly. Please for the love of all that is good do not bring any more technologies into XML than are already there. XML has a few issues I'll address here: * XML forces all data models into a tree model. * XML has second-class citizens in attributes. There's no such that as data that can't be marked up further, but attributes can't be marked up and are parsed differently (e.g. lists of things). * XML namespaces make a lot of people cringe though these have as much to do with the namespaces as they do with anything else. * XML schemas leave a lot to be desired. They are hard to read and write and still lack features needed to get the job done. * XML is excessively verbose to the point of rediculousness. Do not be fooled; XML is simply a technology du jour and it's day in the sun will not be very long I hope. Orion Adrian
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