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True. XML is a subset of SGML. Will that sell more systems or change anyone's mind about the design of XML? What is most important is that the wisdom of SGML On the Web (eventually christened XML) as a subset of SGML, and of the W3C work proceeding along with the ISO work, and of both organizations committing to keeping these relationships open and working was realized by all parties. Otherwise, the work of one may have been marginalized while the work of the other could have been cited as a flagrant act of theft of the intellectual property of the other. There certainly was a dog fight over the relationships but there was a compromise that has worked to everyone's advantage. It is a fact that all of these groups overlapped membership to a considerable degree. The NIH factor is mostly a consultancy concern. That is what is irrelevant. Establishing a cooperative relationship was the essential accomplishment. Cooperation is better. In the end, a market enabling a faster evolution for markup technologies emerged. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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