At 11:13 2002-01-04 -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: >[...] >Like many XML folks, I trust James implicitly when it comes to markup >languages; if he says that adding a macro facility such as =equate is a >bad idea in a markup language, then it's a Bad Idea(tm).
First off, I don't trust him implicitly any further than I can throw him implicitly. And =equate as I've outlined it is hardly a "macro facility" such as he would deride. It's simply a way to declare a new element while allowing /simple/ fallback to established constructs. I'm quite leaning against resisting any capability to say: =equate D "Shazbot: ~!" such that D<yow> turns into "Shazbot: yow!". -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/
