--- In xpl-dev@y..., "Aly Hopkins" <p061949c@p...> wrote:
Wow, awsome msg, Jonathan Burns. Did I understand half of it? While
we're on the subject of "wierd ideas", let's throw out the whole
notion of "structured programming" & "modular programming", as xml is
by it's nature modular; that is, any element in an xml document is
structurally identical to any other, or, the tree is made up of
smaller trees. There's no place in such a fractal structure for
"modules" and "sub-programs". Any element is directly addressable
from any other element by XPath language. Consider the network of
inter-relationships that can be established within one program .
Frightening thought, that we can be drowning in a sea of GOTO's, but
all of this is inherent to the structure of xml.
<unrelated_idea>
Throw all graphics procedures out of xpl, & make it completely
compatable with svg (& xsl). (Wish I knew more about svg.)
</unrelated_idea>
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