Len Bullard wrote:
> Amazing how that works out. I'd love to have a few shekels for every time I
> was beat over the head about the MCM. But like attributes, they seem to be
> a natural feature of the way we organize information even if an illogical
> one.
Human communications is rarely logical, and XML is pretty much a
junction point between our expectations of computers and humans.
Shifted a bit toward the computers from SGML, but not all the way.
> You might be right about the users, but the systems implementers would
> notice PDQ. How would you like to rewrite Visual Studio?
I don't remember Visual Studio providing a lot of support for DTDs,
though I'll confess it's been a few years since I used it.
Cheers,
Simon St.Laurent
Retired XML troublemaker
http://simonstl.com/