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RE: relax ng public list?

• To: 'John Cowan' <jcowan@r...>, Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...>
• Subject: RE: relax ng public list?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:07:13 -0500
• Cc: James Clark <jjc@j...>, xml-dev@l...

It was John's posts on XML-Dev that made me look at 
RELAX and recommend it to the Web3DC as an alternative 
for the existing X3D DTD and schema.  Given enough 
demand, it might be done.

While some might say they don't have enough time in the 
day to process all of the messages posted here, others 
might say it is easier to quickly ascertain the importance 
here than to manage and sort a dozen separate lists. 
Once RELAX has a large enough following and desktop 
support, then it is likely that a separate list with 
it's own infrastructure would be useful and efficient.

I suppose it comes down the demographic of the target 
of the discussion topic.

len


From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...]

Dave Pawson scripsit:

> >I don't understand what's wrong with using this list for questions 
> >about  RELAX NG.
> 
> Purely perception, but IMHO, its near as damn it off topic?

Very much on topic: we are about XML technologies, of which RNG is
definitely one;
it's about validation of XML documents, quite independently of whether a
particular RNG schema is expressed in XML or not.

> I still see relax-ng as marginal, despite my personal preferences?

We try harder.  (TM)

> > Surely this mailing list is not restricted to discussion of 
> >W3C-recommended technologies.
> 
> No?

No.

> >I don't think a separate mailing list would be a very good forum for
RELAX 
> >NG evangelism: that would be somewhat of a case of preaching to the
choir.
> 
> I again quote Tommie, Tony Graham and the xslt list.
> Its my bet (OK, not to be lost) that xslt would be less than it is
> without xslt-list?
> They may preach to the choir, but the questions are answered... mostly
> politely

I agree that this would be a Good Thing, and if someone will supply infra
structure, I'd be happy to answer newbie questions.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.reutershealth.com
www.ccil.org/~cowan
"The exception proves the rule."  Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample
proves
my theory."  Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception
puts
the rule to the proof."  But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted
from."

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