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XML-DEV has been going for less than a week and it already has ~100 subscribers and about the same number of postings. Some of the suscribers are very well known in/to the SGML community but I expect there are some who are new to this whole venture and here a a few thoughts that may be helpful: The list is unmoderated and has no fixed agenda, so that you shouldn't be afraid of bringing up your own ideas or questions, so long as they are in some way related to how XML will be implemented. The list has no formal standing and no way of 'reaching decisions' (though it's possible that mechanisms might emerge). Any voluntary offers for summarising threads will, I'm sure, be most valuable (e.g. 'We seem to agree X, but we differ on Y - so there seems to be a role for software that is limited to X? Is this realistic?'). The discussions run alongside the WG discussions and there is a considerable overlap in membership. XML-DEV is _not_ an informal arena for discussing matters still on the WG agenda. If an issue is aired here ("do I _really_ have to do X and Y to achieve Z?") that might have a bearing on the draft(s) it won't go unnoticed :-). Discussions are archived so that you can download and read them every 2 weeks. SGML is mainly thought of as a document processing and (paper) rendering tool, but XML has the potential for many completely new applications (my own is molecular science). Therefore if you think that XML might help in flying planes, making money, sending digital odors or holography over the Internet (suggested by MIME) feel free to raise the topic. Be considerate about the volume of a posting - some of us pay for incoming mail :-). Quote those parts of previous replies that relate to your message. If you have large chunks of code, post them on http: or ftp: resources. Please also post everything in human-readable ASCII as a lot of people may not be able to manage compressed or other transformed files. Hopefully we shall move to other character sets (e.g. Unicode) in the future. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust, domestic net connection Virtual School of Molecular Sciences http://www.vsms.nottingham.ac.uk/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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