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At 06:44 PM 2/6/99 +0000, Mark Birbeck wrote: >But don't tell me that someone using Office 2000 to write a letter to >their bank manager needs to understand namespaces. You're right. They don't need to know, and most likely, they don't want to. Unfortunately, lots of people between that user and the namespace spec do need to know how to provide reliable and efficient namespace-aware processing. I'd like to think that you don't need to have Microsoft's resources to process a specification and produce reliable and efficient software. XML - even namespaces - isn't exactly rocket science. If you're willing to hit your head against the specs for a few months, which I do for a living, it becomes clear that none of this stuff is really as psychotically complicated as it seems at first. The cost of hitting your head against the specs can be prohibitive, however, if you're a small organization without extensive resources. More complex specs mean that you have to spend more resources comprehending those specs, wasting time that could have been better spent coding. Writing clean specs, clear specs, intelligible specs, helps everyone who needs to implement them, as well as the few users who straggle all the way to the specs to find out exactly why things work the way they do. It may not have a direct impact on the Office 2000 user, but it certainly could affect the choices they have among tools for processing and managing those documents beyond the Office 2000 software itself. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (March) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com 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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