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At 02:25 PM 2/7/99 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >I think you missed a key point I made in the above paragraph - that the >inclusion of implementors _without_ prior experience in the material being >worked on is important. Actually, here's another piece of evidence that supports your position. Recently, in an effort to refresh my memory as to why something in XML 1.0 was the way it was, I went back and reviewed a whole bunch of the XML SIG mailing list correspondence from back in '97 while the important issues were being thrashed out. Things such as white-space handling and public identifiers and so on were being debated passionately by people who were obviously deeply erudite as to the pros and cons of the issues; in the thousands and thousands of emails, though, there is almost no input as to the structure and presentation of the XML spec - everyone was too focused on the content. I think there's *definitely* a lesson there. -Tim 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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