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Norm Tovey-Walsh

@ndw@mastodon.social

mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06

By way of #introduction, I'm an inveterate hacker of markup (XML, HTML, SGML, TeX, JSON, DocBook, RELAX NG, XML Schema, Schematron) and wrangler of bits (XProc, XSLT, XQuery, Java, Scala, Python, JavaScript, C#). Author. Photographer. Occasional cook. Frequent bottle washer. Employed by Saxonica. Resident of Wales. Website tinkerer, https://norm.tovey-walsh.com/

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Joined January 02, 2018

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Norm Tovey-Walsh @ndw@mastodon.social

· 43mo ago

Replying to

@timbray@hachyderm.io @davew@mastodon.social @bosak@flx.masto.host The haters are wrong. Does the imposed pseudo-attribute synax have some drawbacks, yes. Could it have been a little simpler, maybe. But if we didn’t have namespaces, we’d have six different ad hoc, incompatible "namespace" solutions. Because you need them for XSLT and XProc and Schematron and XML Schema and RELAX NG and Atom and SVG and MathML and XLink, and probably OOXML, and and and…

Norm Tovey-Walsh @ndw@mastodon.social

· 43mo ago

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@davew@mastodon.social @timbray@hachyderm.io @bosak@flx.masto.host And lots of other things. Lots of other things.

Norm Tovey-Walsh @ndw@mastodon.social

· 43mo ago

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@davew@mastodon.social @timbray@hachyderm.io @bosak@flx.masto.host Rant on! :-)

Norm Tovey-Walsh @ndw@mastodon.social

· 43mo ago

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@davew@mastodon.social @timbray@hachyderm.io @bosak@flx.masto.host To be excruciatingly clear, I wasn't dissing RSS. Apologies that it wasn't on the list. It was 06:30 or something in the morning and I was extemporizing.