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At 05:50 PM 4/23/98 -0700, Don Park wrote: >However, I have heard through the grapevine that there is a lot of XSL >development activities at Microsoft with at least one project close to >completion. Hmm; bear in mind that XSL is a year away, probably, from being a W3C Recommendation. Thus anybody who charges into implementation of a moving target is incurring some risk as well as potential benefit; at least one early-XML-adopter is right now feeling the pain of retrofitting case- sensitivity into running code with an installed base. Having said that, it's good that people charge ahead with implementation of pre-release specs because it tends to reveal problems that you just don't notice until you implement. And having said *that*, I think that anyone who implements a business-critical application based on an unfinished, unratified spec has shitferbrains. There have certainly been instances, inside W3C committees, where vendors have argued against changes on the grounds that they'd already implemented things; so far, such objections have generally failed to carry the day. On which subject, check out the "Status of this Document" language in the namespace working draft, elegantly authored by Ralph Swick and Ora Lassila for the RDF activity, and stolen by me for namespaces. Bottom line: yes, there are advantages to being inside the process, but early implementation is a two-edged sword. -T. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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