On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:23:56 -0000
"Pete Cordell" <> wrote:
> What if you're just sketching out the outline of your XML; back of
> envelope stuff. So you want to do something like:
>
> <xml:comment>
> Need something like:
> <path ...location attrs...>
> Either <route> or set of <stage> elements
> <Complexity (or should that be <difficulty>)>
> Need a couple of metrics here
> </>
> </xml:comment>
>
> Why should the XML community insist that that has to be well-formed?
> Does the XML community gain anything by it being well-formed?
Yes. XML?
>
> I could make the above well-formed, but as a developer I might want
> to do a brain-dump and come back to it later. What right do we have
> to insist that a developer has to fix the above comment before moving
> onto something else?
Do it now or later, same work?
>
> Or the IDE could 'fix' it, but I imagine that that would just put in
> a bunch of gibberish that the developer would later have to unpick.
>
> I think we should make XML easier to use, not harder.
It's no harder Pete. Just now rather than later?
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