Stephen Waterbury wrote:

> The premise that XML had a coherent design intent
> stetches my credulity beyond its elastic limit.

the design goals are listed in section 1.1 of the specification.

see tim bray's annotated spec for additional comments by one
of the team members:

    http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm

(make sure to click on all (H)'s and (U)'s in that section for the
full story).

if you think that the XML 1.0 team didn't know what they were
doing, you're seriously mistaken.  it's the post-1.0 standards that
are problematic...

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