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From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...> > Paul pours cold water on having the Infoset >group ponder anything new, and James says he'll be disappointed because XML >is no longer focused on its original problem set. No, Paul just said that the Info Set group are not charged with doing anything new, just with documenting what exists. And James said he doesnt want anything that may impede XML's usefulness, not that new uses are not welcome. (pauses to spit out some squid from the supposed "coconut bun"...yuch) Indeed, I am sure that ISO SC34 would be very interested in well-reasoned extensions/simplifications/alterations of SGML which have industry support, test implementations, and which move or optimise SGL for other classes of distribution media. Now that the spec is out, everyone who needs something else will try to change it; but it may be better to use the particular tradeoffs of the other medium to create an entirely new (SGML-based, XML-influenced) language or notation(rather like that XML-in-ASN.1 that some of the telecomms people have proposed). >If you take the stance that XML is about documents and only about >documents, it may seem that these proposals for XML are in competition with >document-oriented applications. Do you mean "documents" (packages of structured information) or "electronic publishing"? I think you mean the latter. XML-like SGML has been used for years in applications other than publishing: someone told me that Xerox have used an XML-like syntax to deliver copier diagnostics to repairmens' PDAs for almost 10 years now. (Can anyone confirm this?) HyTime was encouraged in part because of CIA interest in languages for orchestrating satellite movements, I have been told, too. Indeed, HyTime grew out of a desire to formally analyse performances of music. Music performances, satellite movements, diagnostic data: these are not "publications" but they all can be "documents". Rick Jelliffe 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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