Re: Deja vu Again

[Randy Presuhn <rpresuhn@dorothy.bmc.com>]

Hi -

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> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:40:09 -0700
> To: "David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>
> From: Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>
> Subject: Re: Deja vu Again
> Cc: Rob Austein <sra+xmlconf@hactrn.net>, xmlconf@ops.ietf.org
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...
> Since XML is self-documenting

I hope you're being facetious.

>                               and every namespace is like another
> sandbox, there are many possibilities for the PDU content.
...

Although I'd be the first to support the notion that whatever
framework we come up with should make some allowance for the
reality of legacy / proprietary DTDs and XML schemas, I think
we should not encourage proliferation.

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