[capidl] Re: [E-Lang] Concerning XML docs

[Chip Morningstar]

>From: Tyler Close <tjclose@yahoo.com>
>
>ASIDE:
>My mind boggles at what goes on at W3C. I am baffled that they are even 
>calling SVG an XML format. The whole thing is done by inventing custom text 
>encodings and putting these inside XML attribute strings. The design 
>totally defeats the whole point of having a standard encoding format like 
>XML. This is an especially grave tragedy since having a vector graphics 
>format that is easily generated with XSLT is an important piece of 
>application infrastructure.

Having proved themselves miserably incompetent as engineers and designers, the
W3C people have finally figured out where they can really excel: going to
standards meetings.


I think I wasn't paying close enough attention at some point in the proceedings
here. Can someone explain to me why we are having anything to do with the whole
XML cargo cult in the first place?

Is there any actual technical benefit from touching this tarbaby or is it being
done for marketing/positioning purposes?

Chip


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