Re: [xml-dev] W3C Successes (RE: [xml-dev] W3C Culture and Aims )

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Re: [xml-dev] W3C Successes (RE: [xml-dev] W3C Culture and Aims )
In a message dated 24/04/02 22:53:45 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:


Um, as regards XML, you're joking, right?  Look at the history.  It's
_completely_ unlike HTML, it was way out ahead of what any vendors
were thinking about, much less trying-and-failing to interoperate.  It
was in fact a lot like XSLT and XML Schema:  real new science was done
in the WGs.


Henry,

New "science" is arguably a potentially dangerous approach for a standards-setting body/group to take. Not least when it is paralleled by associated embedding of requirements for use of the result (XSD Schema) in other W3C technologies.

Andrew Watt