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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>,simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent)
• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: Ann Navarro <ann@w...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:50:43 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200211012251.RAA18258@m...>
• References: <r01050400-1021-337D5712EDE911D6870B0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]>

At 05:38 PM 11/1/2002 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>  It may be awkward,
>annoying, or funny-looking.  That doesn't make the case for inventing
>a new mechanism, still less looking up like a bunch of sheep and expecting
>someone else to invent it -- and then grumbling about secret processes and
>dictatorial WGs.

Yet when WGs who have been told 'we don't see the need' go and invent it 
for themselves, since they do have a need, they get mauled for trying (see 
HLink, ad nauseum). Can't have it both ways.

Ann
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Ann Navarro, WebGeek, Inc.
http://www.webgeek.com

say what? http://www.snorf.net/blog

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