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jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes: >> You can believe that if it's what it takes to keep working on it, >> but it looks like the W3C is building a stack to the sky. That >> stack isn't the chaotic Tower of Babel that Mark Pesce and others >> feared XML would create, but an ever-growing semantic stack that >> tries too hard to create order where tolerance for chaos might be a >> wiser strategy. > >Order magicians may need to retreat to their own island in order to >get done what they want to get done; chaos magicians have the whole >universe to play in. There is no reason why they should oppose one >another. If the "order magicians" would actually retreat to their own island, I would agree. Instead they seem quite intent on specifying their will and creating markets where order itself is highly valued. Setting values for a market is difficult in theory but easier in practice, especially given the participants in this exercise. On the bright side, I think the "chaos magicians" are far likelier to find this amusing. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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