Complimenting last week's muddy dog, pointing you towards SCALA's Technology Petting Zoo, and continuing the animalistic ferocity of this blog in general, may I present the muddy horse (with hooman accessoree)! Now that I’ve been thinking on it a little bit (as I carefully *stifled laughter* edit this post), maybe HTML is that much more comfortable than XML because it seems a more natural extension of what I already do to edit my documents. I press CRL+i to italicize, then press it again to stop italicizing. If I were to write out what I was doing, say to instruct someone through IM a Librarian (a Help/Reference Desk service popular at many academic libraries and called Digsby at Pitt) about how to italicize something in their paper, I might just write it out like HTML. XML, not so much. Is anyone else getting the sense, like I am, that HTML is more semantic than XML, despite techie claims? Or am I just being an ostrich with my head stuck in the sand, incapable of moving forward at the necessary pace?
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I agree with you to an extent. I do the same thing with fonts in a document, but did you ever notice that sometimes you hit control and a different letter by accident, then all heck breaks loose on your paper? It just seems to me the easiest way to tell something to do something else is by just that...telling it. And remembering to tell it before and after and knowing what has to stand for what is a level I am not too sure I am ready to stand on.
I'm not sure I think html is more semantic, but I think I finally understand the true point of xml from your comparison to keyboard shortcuts. Thank you!
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