On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 23:41, Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre wrote:
I've been spoiled by years of markup to think
that starting and ending explicitly is not
verbose, but polite.
--Debbie
<message>
<greetings>
<word>Hi</word>
<word ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/debbie+lapeyre/";>
Debbie
</word>
</greetings>
<para>
<sentence>
<word>Yes</word>
<comma/>
<word ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/debbie+lapeyre/";>
Debbie
</word>
<word ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/debbie+lapeyre/";>
you
</word>
<word>are</word>
<word>right</word>
<comma/>
<word ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/eric+van+der+vlist/";>
I
</word>
<word>suggest</word>
<word>to</word>
<word>generalize</word>
<word>the</word>
<word>usage</word>
<word>of</word>
<word>explicit</word>
<word>markup</word>
<word>to</word>
<word>be</word>
<word>more</word>
<word>polite</word>
<emoticon>:-)</emoticon>
<exclamation/>
</sentence>
</para>
<signature ref="http://xmlfr.org/index/person/eric+van+der+vlist/";>
Eric
</signature>
</message>
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