- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liamquin@interlog.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 01:03:01 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
Is this serious?? The excuses about not having used entities because the DTD is too complicated and not using XLink because it's more fun to invent a new standard than use an existing one seem to me to show that people have too much time on their hands. If XLink doesn't do what the groups using it need, FIX IT. Don't invent new standardsjust for the fun of it. I really hope this "standard" goes away. Will an XML processor in 2 years' time have a list of hundreds of "magic' URLs that define namespace-specific behaviour that ccould not be deduced by inspection, are cryptic, and interact in subtle ways? What happened to XML being simple? Lee -- Liam Quin, Barefoot Computing, Toronto; The barefoot programmer Ankh on irc.sorcery.net, http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ co-author, The XML Specification Guide forthcoming: The Open Source XML Database Toolkit
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