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 Michael Kay wrote: > This is a good analysis of the problems in the schema spec, but it doesn't > answer my real question: how does one prevent standards committees from > behaving in this manner? > > In my experience, everyone on the group might understand the dangers of > Version One Syndrome, but they still won't drop their individual insistence > on the features that they think are core to the requirement. Fair enough, but awareness is the first step. Where XML Schema fits in is that people who have to use it (or worse, implement it) have oftentimes suffered so much in the process that they are willing to give up features and the such. I can't count how many times someone on the XBC WG said "please, you're pulling an XML Schema on us with that property" or something along those lines (and most of those times weren't me ;). There may be small recipes that could work too. For instance, if you have Version One Syndrome, make sure you don't have the Space Odyssey syndrome so that later on people can cut out features by only supporting some of the sub-specs. It also helps to do the requirements right instead of rushing them as too many WGs do. Time only will tell but if there is a WG for Efficient XML Interchange, I think that the XBC experience will be very useful. In my experience you don't need the whole group to be the "right people", it suffices that there are three/four active participants equiped with big mouths and an understanding of how things could go wrong to prevent some of those problems. Most WGs I know have those, but they're not necessarily aware of the pitfalls of standardisation. Hence, since there's no cookbook on How To Succeed In Standards, my insistence on awareness. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/ 
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