- From: Jeff Sonstein <jeffs@it.rit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:47:17 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
On Feb 15, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Bijan wrote: > I'm not on the TAG list so replies that one would like me to respond > to in a timely manner should be cced to me.) sorry www-tag list doesn't always show me addresses of senders (like this time... I have no idea of Bijan's address) and I was just "me too"-ing some of Henry S. Thompson's sentiments if memory serves me to reiterate what I was responding to (and quoted in my note): > But I think the world has already voted with its feet on the XML5 > question, in that there is a notable _lack_ of folk advocating it. > > And there's good reason for that: XML actually _is_ usable by > authors and authoring well-formed XML is _not_ hard. > I also teach XML and related technologies cool... I was not claiming any god-like expertise (far from it, believe me) I just wanted to make clear that I was not simply "spouting off" with no experience that I was not speaking from ummm... a dark place in my anatomy ;^} I am not claiming that *I* do perfect code alla time either I just find that "it is too hard" doesn't sell me in at least this case the case of XHTML no offense intended > In one graduate course (with the majority of students being PhD > students), the students were supposed to produce a simple RDF/XML > document. The majority of the submissions (IIRC) were not well formed > XML. I know the feeling... and it makes me crazy sometimes > In my personal experience, XML datasets found in the wild can be quite > broken, at least, when I download them. for sure there is a lot of garbage produced... hell sometimes *I* produce garbage <blush/> but I thought we were talking about proposing and building standards and best practices documents > I also don't think pejoratives or scorn or disbelief are helpful for > understanding the situation. ummmm I didn't think I had done that but if it came across that way my apologies no offense or scorn intended none at all > I, personally, am interested in XML5 like efforts, FWIW. so I gathered and FWIW I am not jeffs -- "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein - ============ Prof. Jeff Sonstein http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/ http://chw.rit.edu/blog/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/jeffs.asc http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/emailDisclaimer.html
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