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Re: Simplified DocBook
David Lloyd <[email protected]> writes:
> BINWYWTLFWYAWD...UNDERSTANDIBILITY IS. Maybe it's more important to
> write malformed SGML rather than valid XML in the interest of "ease of
> use"....
>
> DL
>
> (Brevity Is Not What You Want To Look For When Writing Documentation)
I agree. Brevity may make it easier for a someone to author a
document, but it may make it much harder for other people or machines
to use or process the document -- that is, to do things like query the
document or build an index from it.
--Mike Smith
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