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Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I think I'm willing to live without else. If I want else, I think the
> right answer is a special-purpose XML vocabulary:
>=20
> <chapter>
> <prof:choose>
> <prof:when condition=3D"html">
> <title>HTML Title</title>
> </prof:when>
> <prof:when condition=3D"print">
> <title>Print Title</title>
> </prof:when>
> <prof:otherwise>
> <title>Print and HTML Title</title>
> </prof:otherwise>
> </prof:choose>
> ....
>=20
> Where the profiling application always removes all prof: elements.
Now tell me how this differs, other than in surface syntax, from what I've
already done?
Yes, I could have dressed up my conditionals this way. Still could with=20
some trivial changes to my flex program. I thought it would be more
honest to make them PIs.
--=20
<a href=3D"http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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