Re: [xtm-wg] XTM Processing Model - alternative proposal

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

> * Lars Marius Garshol
> |
> | This approach has been chosen in order to avoid the problem
> inherent
> | in any formalism: that the formalism must first be learned.
> 
> * Sam Hunting
> | 
> | To me, this is like saying that XML would be easier to learn if
> | there were no angle brackets.
> 
> Is this your only comment?

So far. As I said in a private mail, my stupid mailer is truncating the
document. When I get it the full document, I will review it in full. 

> | Instead of "throwing the baby out with the bath water," wouldn't it
> | be more appropriate to insist that any formalism be easy to learn
> | and use?
> 
> Maybe. Such an insistence would look strange in the processing model,
> however. 

I don't see why. I use the productions in XML all the time as a
teaching tool, and also to check and test conformance. 

S.

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