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<h1>Re: Style Guide (was Re: I'm a sucker)</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: Jorge Godoy <<A HREF="mailto:godoy@conectiva.com">godoy@conectiva.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Style Guide (was Re: I'm a sucker)</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: David Lloyd <<A HREF="mailto:lloy0076@rebel.net.au">lloy0076@rebel.net.au</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:43:11 +0930</li>
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<li><em>References</em>: <<a href="msg03990.html">025836EFF856D411A6660090272811E61D0801@EMAIL</a>> <<a href="msg04012.html">39E3B6C9.74079E3C@rebel.net.au</a>> <<a href="msg04014.html">kp7l7gnq6s.fsf@dagon.conectiva</a>></li>
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<li><em>Resent-date</em>: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:00:20 -0400 (EDT)</li>
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Jorge et al:
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> Not if the feedback has comments such as 'Nice document! How about
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> improving it adding this thing?'. It's the author's decision to
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> include something or to ommit something.
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That much is true. The author might also be thankful that she didn't
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have to add that whole chapter on cryptography to her document and that
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others submitted patches or wot not to her. This is a turning stone of
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open source - someone (the author, committee, dictator, or wotever) has
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to approve additions and patches but everyone is free to submit one or
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many of them.
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> DL> My point is that DTD's and other schema (for want of a better word) help
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> DL> create valid documents. The XML specification is quite clear on this -
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> DL> whilst a document may be well-formed it is not necessarily valid. And
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> DL> because we can't expect XML parsers to be telepathic they must be
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> DL> provided with a DTD.
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> I don't follow your point here... What does DTDs and XML or SGML
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> documents have to do with the problem of what's in the document?
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As another thread has pointed out they can help clarify the semantics of
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a document. One example that jumps out at me is that you can't have an
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untitled book in DocBook. Noone is likely to forget the title, but if
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you have some sort of structured DTD or other validating document it
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helps people to write valid documents.
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> This is good... Every contribution is valid. And constructive
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> criticism too. But lets try to be clear. It's hard to follow vague
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> phrases after a full working day.
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Language, by definition, is vague.
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> Imagine this guy reading the list...
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One needs to draw a line between communicating naturally, taking into
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account everyone's cultural and linguistic needs and sounding stilted
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and/or out of style. Unfortunately, I have attempted to use such machine
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translators as "babelfish" or the one at dictionary.com and they can
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genuinely !@#$ up a really simple sentence whilst getting horrendeously
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complex ones almost if not absolutely correct :-)
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DL
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--
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And so it was that later
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As the miller told his tale
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That a face that at first was ghostly
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<li><strong><a name="03990" href="msg03990.html">RE: Style Guide (was Re: I'm a sucker)</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="04012" href="msg04012.html">Re: Style Guide (was Re: I'm a sucker)</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au></li></ul></li>
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