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 Another thing I see being part of the problem is that everything is so new. These new specs are building on the (somewhat) older specs (many that aren't even complete) as if they're solid well tested and proven commodities. The reality is this isn't the case and far too many of the specs coming out of the W3C amount to completely new technologies and they're not being adequately proven through implementation before being built upon. Did XQuery use W3C XML Schema because it is solid and well proven, no they used it because it is "W3C" XML Schema. What I think is going to happen is we're going to get this huge heap of technology that no one other then the largest organizations can implement and in the end nobody wants. Following 80/20 and having something that can at least be used is better then going for 100 and ending up with something few can understand let alone implement. Reuse is clearly a good thing but what is being reused must itself be stable and good otherwise you just get rubbish. Tim Bray wrote: > > At 12:23 PM 16/02/01 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > >After writing about the new XSLT and XPath requirements documents, plus the > >latest in query, I'm getting kind of concerned by how deeply intertwined > >all of these specs seem to be getting, and how intertwined with Schemas > >they're becoming. > > One man's "intertwined" is another's "consistent". I think a lack > of interconnectedness would be a bigger problem. > > The real problem, the one that I think is actually causing Simon's > pain, is that these things are all too big, too complicated, and have > a contemptuous disdain for trying to hit 80/20 points. Missing the > point of the Web, I call this. Mind you, having been through the > closing months of getting XML 1.0 finished when it was already too > big and every power player and their dog wanted to get just one > more feature in, I can see how it happens. Doesn't mean it's right. > -Tim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... -- Kimbro Staken Chief Technology Officer dbXML Group L.L.C http://www.dbxmlgroup.com 
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