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• To: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
• Subject: Re: Avoding a repeat of W3C XSD - was Re: Is Web 2.0 the new XML?
• From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen@g...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:27:16 +1000
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Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...> wrote:
> There's also the uber-problem that all WGs have, which is that the
> consensus process makes it much easier to add stuff than remove stuff.
>  I don't know how to address that, but as I recall the Schema WG
> *explicitly* made it hard to remove features once they had been agreed
> to.

I'll even go as far and say that many of the other problems would get
solved if this one was sorted out.

"You know your system is perfect, not when there's nothing more to
add, but when there's nothing more to take away." :)


Alex
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  • Avoding a repeat of W3C XSD - was Re: Is Web 2.0 the new XML?
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