Off topic (Re: Embedding Content as Element Content or As An Attribute Value)

[Sean Mc Grath]

>An efficient language will provide not only a modeling syntax but also
contractions.
...
In the feb issue of Dr. Dobbs there is a fascinating interview with Larry
Wall, creator of
Perl. Being half linguist/half software genius he has some interesting things to
say about the way languages evolve and the tension between ease of expression
and language syntax. I found a resonance between what he was saying and the
attribute/element content chestnut in SGML/XML.

BTW, there is an article on XML by yours truly in the same issue.

Sean
Sean Mc Grath

sean at digitome.com
Digitome Electronic Publishing
http://www.digitome.com


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