RE: [xml-dev] Reality check needed ....

From
Michael Kay <>
To
, 'Jeff Lowery' <>, 'Mike Champion' <>,
Date
2002-08-07T09:13:31Z
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<001601c23df2$b33e4de0$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] Reality check needed ....
> > From: Jeff Lowery
> > > ...
> > > Anything
> > > that sees the end of the three-character file extension
> > must be a step
> > > forward. ...
> > > Michael Kay
> > 
> > You really want to remove the markup from the file names?
> 
I'm not sure if your question is real or ironic.

I had assumed it was obvious to everyone in this community that names,
in general, should not carry implicit information about the objects they
refer to: or at any rate, that there are better ways of representing
this information than packing it into three bytes of the name.

Michael Kay
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