On Wed April 6 2005 08:03, Eliot Lear wrote: > > Bruce Lilly wrote: > > > > > Such as line breaks in the middle of words, followed by loss of > > indentation? > > > > N.B. no smiley. > > So what? So if the primary purpose of a piece of software is to produce properly-formatted text documents, and it fails at that task, all bets are off (i.e. if it fails to produce *correct* results, being fast, cheap, small, flashy, self-contained, portable, etc, usually don't matter; and in this case being slow, requiring multiple external programs etc. are simply additional baggage). > The nice thing about an XML format is that if you don't like > the representation you can change it without changing the source. Isn't > that nice?! Not if the primary output is unusable. But maybe I missed your point... _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf