reaching humans (was Re: [xml-dev] Extract A Subset of a W3C XML Schema?)

 (james anderson) writes:
>on the other hand, i can't put my finger on the last time i seriously
>tried to interpret a stack trace without a symbol table. or rather
>without some machine doing the interpretation for me. and even in the
>days when i had to, it never would have occurred to me to expect to
>find my comments in the machine code.

I think markup's a completely different kind of toolset, with virtues
you don't appear to value.  

Markup is capable of reaching people who'll never need or want to go
anywhere near a stack trace.  It's built that way explicitly, at a
pretty high cost.  Throwing away those features while working with XML
seems perverse at best.

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