On Sat, October 7, 2006 9:37 am, peter murray-rust wrote:

> Among topics that are not helpful on the list are:

> - topics not related to XML.
> - humour not related to XML (and then only in moderation)

Simple enough that it hardly needs stating, but even when stated, it's not
going to prevent the occasional unhelpful posting.

> - redefinition of XML and related W3C specifications, including
> revisions of XML syntax. There are many specialist forums that may be
> suitable and these sometimes have calls for comments on revisions of the
> specs.

More complicated. Coming up with a definition of XML-related topics that
are not suitable for discussion here would itself be an endless
discussion, and if I was looking for one of these specialist forums, I'd
probably go to xml-dev to ask for pointers anyway.

While this string XML thing looked pretty silly to me (after a fairly
cursory review), I wouldn't say "don't even bring that up here!" Nor did I
find Elliotte's response anything to object to.

Bob