Date:         Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:45:18 +0100
Reply-To:     "Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative" <[log in to unmask]>
Sender:       "Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative" <[log in to unmask]>
From:         Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Betr.: Re: result set model for srw
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In-Reply-To:  <[log in to unmask]> (message from Ray Denenberg on Tue,
              18 Jun 2002 15:07:40 -0400)

> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:07:40 -0400
> From: Ray Denenberg <[log in to unmask]>
>
> "read it" and "write it" are two different things. It was always a
> premise that humans can read it. That's a premise of XML too, which
> is not intended to be human-writeable.

Hmm.  We may be going a bit off-topic here, but I'm not sure I've ever
seen a computer-generated XML document that I could understand without
some degree of pain.  In general, the only things that can be read by
humans are things that were written by other humans.

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