Re: [xml-dev] Near and Far (Was RE: [xml-dev] A parentless elemen t that is not the document node - how?)

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:07, John Cowan wrote:
> Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:
> 
> > So the value of The Bible, the works of Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, 
> > and Hofstadter are zero unless we read them?
> 
> They aren't *code*.  I said code, and that's what I meant.
> The best indication of this is the discontinued-software bin,
> where old software is sold at about the media cost.  People aren't
> willing to pay anything for software that's been end-of-lifed.

do you mean the bible has been "end-of-lifed"? <grin/>