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>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<< What about us poor authors!! We have to write "knowledgeably" about a subject that doesn't even exist. Our books usually appear at about the same time as a spec which invalidates every thing we have written!! Frank -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...> To: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 6:38 PM Subject: Re: Nesting XML based languages and scripting languages >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...) > > 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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