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 The harshest criticism of SGML's initial development was that is was an "IBM thing" which wasn't the case. It had an IBM editor who leveraged the work on GML done at IBM, plus development on other attempts to build platform independent languages. It competed directly with vendor-lockedin WYSIWYG and that was the hardest problem to overcome. If it is a good and workable idea, it may bob to the surface several times before it gets a lung full of air and starts swimming. The hype surrounding it often is what pushes it to the surface. In the long term, it has to be useful and in most cases, reasonably easy to use. There is and has always been a competition to be the editor because that person or persons exercises tremendous control over the results, and takes tremendous responsibility toward getting the job done. If not chosen well, it dies on the editor's desk. Leadership is the most important issue, not employer. That is why I suggest people re-read the Federalist Papers. Not to adopt the philosophy or means, but to understand how individuals can overcome the mass mentality of populist rhetoric to ensure that the system which emerges is workable. I point out Ben Franklin as an example of means that are often more subtle than a flaming zealot can ever manage. A guy with a match and a loaded pipe and can do quite a lot with a room full of arguing hot heads. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: David Megginson [mailto:david@m...] You'd think so, but then again, look at the developers who did the actual prototypical (pre-REC) XML programming work -- Norbert Mikula, Tim Bray, James Clark, David Megginson [me!], Peter Murray-Rust, Henry Thompson, and a few others who'll justly be upset I've forgotten them, all at that time independents or academic researchers. More independents and academics did similar work for the other XML-related standards as they came around. 
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