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RE: the infoset is two infosets (or even three?) [was: Re: [xm

• To: clbullar@i..., tbray@t..., xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: the infoset is two infosets (or even three?) [was: Re: linking, 80/20]
• From: "Wayne Steele" <xmlmaster@h...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:36:56 -0700
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>From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
>
>Ummm... so XML-Dev has to figure this out before the W3C listens?  Huh?
>If that is all we have to do, then what do we need the W3C for?
>
>Great.  Aaron, care to propose the elimination of the default?
>Any others?  We can vote and get right to changing the code.
>No waiting.
>
>len

Sadly, this is not something that can be easily resolved by changing some 
code and getting back to work.

The only solutions I can imagine are of the consensus building, best 
practices type. Even if most XML-DEVers were to adopt a set of these, 
nothing would prevent the W3C (or anyone else of status) from peeing in our 
pool by embracing the very things that we have decided should be forbidden.

You, Me, Simon, and a hundred other people could all agree: "You should 
never create an XML Grammar that beflurbs a splunge." But if the W3C comes 
out with a new recomendation that works splunge beflurbing into the very 
core of its meaning, all we have done is sow more confusion.

   "so XML-Dev has to figure this out before the W3C listens?"

This might be true, and wouldn't be so bad. But if we figured it out, would 
the W3C listen? (my money says no)

I see no future in XML-DEV developing best practices (beyond out own 
edification), unless and until the W3C has a serious effort to determine 
best practices (I'm sure they would be happy to be informed by XML-DEV 
experiences) and enforce them upon working groups. Maybe the TAG can do 
this. The fact of the TAG being so overloaded with work shows how much of a 
need exists for this kind of thing.

-Wayne Steele


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