From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:32:59 +0200 Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D73F6D1.7010002@cox.net> <874rd7wuos.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D74D797.7000707@cox.net> <87bs7etocv.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200209041549.g84FnQp19483@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1031163761.2470.183.camel@bobcat.ods.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031193339 19903 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2002 02:35:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:35:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ville =?iso-8859-1?q?Skytt=E4?= , Stefan Monnier , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mmUb-0005At-00 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:35:37 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA21467; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA21392 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA21386 for turnbull@tux.org; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from elvis.franken.de (dns.franken.de [193.175.24.33]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA21369; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 17mmUy-0002nE-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:36:00 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 21078A4CB3; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:32:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "05 Sep 2002 10:48:57 +0900") Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.90 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1401 gmane.emacs.devel:7493 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7493 Miles Bader writes: > (2) People who actually know XML. These people will pick up > texinfo's syntax in about 35 seconds (both syntaxes are really > almost trivial). Texinfo is too terse. Often it's ambiguous. And its parsers (makeinfo?) are too graceful; there isn't any so called validator. Okay, some of us might consider these issues as features ;) Every project maintainer has to decide on his own whether he want to make use of things SGML can offer. For what's worth, SGML is an ISO standard; XML is not, though. -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)