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• To: "Jay Vaughan" <jv@a...>
• Subject: RE: xml-utterly-practical (was RE: Advice: inline node editing, or not?)
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:59:58 +0200
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Reply-to: <danny666@v...>

> >  > Maybe the world needs an "xml-utterly-practical" list?  You're hardly
> >  > the first person I've heard with this complaint.  I doubt
> I'd join it,
> >  > but that would probably make the utterly-practical folks
> cheer anyway.
> >
> >Would an xml-technology specific list be any real use to anyone?
> There are
> >other lists for individual things like xsl, java+xml etc. I suspect a
> >literal "xml-dev" would be too widely scoped. This list on the other hand
> >has the groove left by those six years of posts to keep it on track...
> >
>
> I can't honestly believe that, in lieu of just trying to 'maintain'
> topicness on this list, tone things down on the politics/business
> discussion a bit, and get back to the xml technical/development side
> of things, the creation of *another* list is being recommended.

That's the exact opposite of what I was saying, and doesn't particularly
follow from Simon's points either.

> Sheesh.  If that doesn't highlight the problems with some of the
> personalities and mindsets behind the XML front, I dunno what does
> ... I've never met a bigger bunch of techno-beaureaucrats!  Well,
> maybe in the Tandem days ...

Your technical/development point being?

Cheers,
Danny.

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