perl-unicode

Re: In-Band Information Considered Harmful

1998-10-23 12:41:19
Chip Salzenberg wrote :
|| According to John Macdonald:
|| > It is not clear that there *can be* a binary separation between
|| > content and markup.
|| 
|| I think the case needs to made a lot more strongly before I see a
|| reason to blur the line between content and markup when designing a
|| new system.
|| 
|| (Having to blur the line when interpreting an *existing* system like
|| XML or HTML may of course be necessary.)

As I said, Tim Bray did make the case a lot more clearly at the
conference than I just did.  I'm afraid I didn't write down his
slide, though.  Did anyone write it down?  Was it on the CD?  Maybe
we should just ask Tim.

-- 
objects:                                    | John Macdonald
    Think of them as data with an attitude. |   jmm(_at_)elegant(_dot_)com