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At 10:01 1998 05 01 -0400, Paul Prescod wrote: >Here are some more thoughts about open standards processes: > >The XML SIG was pretty wide open, which was admirable, but XSL the DOM, >etc. seem to have no equivalent. I don't quite understand this statement. The open, public www-dom@w... mailing list has been in existence "forever," and the DOM work has been receiving some very useful feedback from people on that list. The open, public xsl-list@m... has been in existence for only two weeks less than the xsl-wg itself, and it has been quite active since its inception. The "problem" with the XML SIG was that everyone on that list had to be an "invited expert" and they were all bound by W3C-member confidentiality regulations. This was a logistic nightmare, and it actually meant that some important discussion was pre-empted from truly public lists like xml-dev. The XSL WG decided instead not to have this "intermediate" (and confusing and problematic) level mailing group, but instead to have just the public xsl-list (kindly hosted by Mulberry Technologies). We felt that was the more open, democratic thing to do. As far as XSL, if you think you're not seeing something that W3C members are seeing, you're wrong. We do not have anything yet to show (other than the requirements document that we are in the process of releasing to the public as we speak). We plan to have a first draft of the XSL 1.0 spec released to the public in July--the same time it is released to W3C members, as I understand it [mega-apologies if I'm wrong about this, but this is my current understanding]. 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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