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Re: An open plea to the W3C (was Re: XInclude vs SAX vs validation)

• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:27:16 +0100

I feel like the (US) Federal Government must have felt when they tried 
to reform voter registration laws in the southern states a few years
back.  There is a fundamental question buried within your request:
who are the users whose voices matter, and how do we identify them?
Remember Lot pleading for Sodom and Gomorrah?  How many people really
using feature F of XML 1.0 + Namespaces + ... does it take in order to 
render it safe from pruning?

As I have said more than once before: "One person's 20 is another
person's 80, and they're both [using XML]".

ht
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          W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team
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  • Re: XInclude vs SAX vs validation
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  • Re: XInclude vs SAX vs validation
    • From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
  • Re: XInclude vs SAX vs validation
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
  • An open plea to the W3C (was Re: XInclude vs SAX vs validation)
    • From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>

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