[Gllug] Getting Linux to work with Freeserve (Wanadoo) Broadband

Tue Jul 6 10:46:14 UTC 2004

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 05:51:20 +0100, Peter Childs
<blue.dragon at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Doug Winter wrote:
> 
> >On Mon 05 Jul Bruce Richardson wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:21:37AM +0100, Pete wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Fair call, but I reckon there's a real potential for a human-readable markup
> >>>languages.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Humans can read XML.  I suspect that most people would find
> >>
> >>
> >
> >They have horrible trouble writing it though.  And it's amazingly prolix
> >and irritating.
> >
> >doug.
> >
> >
> >
>     While the theory is good the practice is something else. hence why
> html has drifted from is original well formed standard. XML would be
> fine if it did not put so many rules round it and require every one to
> follow them complexly. The good for computers not so good for humans.
> Humans are no good at writing in languages with loads of padding, Just
> look at all the extra stuff in Jabber and you will start to understand,
> its the doc types that do not help! I mean this document says absolutely
> nothing an yet it has about 60 chars of padding!
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html
>      PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>   <head>
>     <title></title>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <p></p>
>   </body>
> </html>
> 
> #
> 
> 
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