On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Gerald Bauer wrote:
> * While everyone appears to agree that it is a
> "language", no one recognizes that the markup is also
> dependent upon a parser which introduces syntax
> specialization
This is the single most important thing anyone can learn about XML in
general. This is the fundamental reason why namespaces are of little
value: the fundamental model of composite scoped (embedded) parsers and
processors is a specialised model, and even it doesn't need them. The
specification renders even that specialisation far more complex than it
needs to be.
