[Fwd: Re: Mixed content]

[Rob Seaman]

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> <IVOmember>Alasdair Allen</IVOmember> <url> http:// 
> www.babilim.co.uk/blog/ </url> and  <NVOmember>Mathew Graham</ 
> NVOmember>  at <institution>Caltech</institution> , <IVOmember>Guy  
> Rixen </IVOworker>, and <NVOmember>Bob Seaman</NVOmember> came to  
> agreement, perhaps for the first time about anything, that mixed  
> content might be allowed in the <A href="http://www.ivoa.net/">IVO</ 
> A>.

Isn't <NVOmember> subclassed from <IVOmember>?

> However many others, too numerous to name, felt strongly that mixed  
> content is a definite no-no.

"Too numerous to name" raises the question of how IVOA should  
represent the transfinite cardinal numbers.  How about:

	<Aleph subscript="NULL" />

Although, by definition, "too numerous to name" would suggest a  
number of members of at least order:

	<Aleph subscript="one" />

suggesting that Alasdair, Matthew, Guy and myself have been soundly  
outvoted.

> As for me, I would never be caught creating mixed content as that  
> would be way too confusing to be understood by any parser much less  
> a mere human.
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Say wha?

Rob