Re: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:47 am, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> But as one who lived in the previous
> generation of SGML tools that did not
> have any hint of a common data model,
> I have to say I don't want to go back
> there.  

Well, we had the ESIS...

> I agree
> that programmers usually prefer to work
> at the level of the API, but things like
> hidden namespace values force them to
> go back and look at the data model.

I'd say the API or the data model is broken in that case.