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Re: W3C Successes (RE: W3C Culture and Aims )

• To: "Evan Lenz" <evan@e...>
• Subject: Re: W3C Successes (RE: W3C Culture and Aims )
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: 25 Apr 2002 09:30:56 +0100
• Cc: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>, <xml-dev@l...>, <jwrobie@m...>
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"Evan Lenz" <evan@e...> writes:

> Are you referring to XML 1.0? I always considered it to be a good de jure
> codification of de facto best practices in (i.e. most common subset of)
> SGML. In that sense, Michael's characterization seems better than "real new
> science", let alone a joke...

See my reply to Tim Bray -- I withdraw the word 'science' as it
clearly is confusing the issue, but stand by my claim that substantive 
work was done in the WG: XML went a long way beyond any existing
technology from major web vendors.

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