Re: words (RE: extensibility in XSchema?)

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:16:11

At 13:21 22/06/98 -0500, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
[...]
>
>The ultimate problem of course is that Humpty Dumpty rules in XML land: any
>element can mean exactly what you want it to mean, regardless of what the
>original author intended it to mean. That is the beauty of generalized
>markup and the curse of generalized markup.

Eliot is, of course, formally correct.

>
>Embrace the chaos.

I attach the following semantics to this fuzzy statement. Eliot is urging
us to find workable solutions, using XML-DEV as a means for arriving at
rough consensus within at least a part of our community. He is also
suggesting that this will be a joyous task. [1]

P.

[1] Of course you have to attach semantics to what *I* have just written...
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