From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 12:50:20 CST
Patrick Andries wrote at 9:53 AM on Wednesday, March 9, 2005:
>Or a clever XML editor that would split such spans into well-formed
>(non-overlapping) equivalent hierarchies?
Yes, of course, but those sorts of kludges are only indicators of the
design problems inherent in current xml (and why I use empty tags for
everything). Plus these markup "solutions" quickly balloon into
complicated fragility and undermine the xml's design goals for robustness
and simplicity.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
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