- From: George Lund <G.A.Lund@warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:55:28 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
In message <062b01c1bfea$c4d91ca0$0301a8c0@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> writes >Hang on - SVG is human-readable, as is MathML and X3D -- all are langauges >for material to be presentedto a human. We are not talking about making the >source human-readble I hope. Why is XML a text format (indeed, a mark-up language!) if its contents are not to be human-readable for human directed error correction and limited editing? Perhaps there is a danger in attempting to use XML for applications that do not have some connection to some traditional notion of what 'marking-up' a document actually means? To quote from the XML specification, design goal six is that "XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably clear". The context implies that all XML should be human-readable at source level. (For example, RDF is for "machine-readable" metadata, certainly here design goal six could not apply were it speaking of some post-XML-parsing situation, hence it must have been referring to the source mark-up.) Regards -- George Lund
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