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At 01:19 8/02/1999 , Paul Prescod wrote: | What is a "clean spec?" | | People in this discussion are mixing together a variety of things that I | do not consider the same. | | Uche Ogbuji wrote: | > I have worked on teams implementing DOM, XSL and parts of XLL. Some users | > might grant that we have been "succeeding", but let me assure you that if so, | > it is despite the W3C specs, not because of them. DOM, especially is | > unforgivably inconsistent, incomplete, and unclear for a production-ready | > (1.0) specification. | | There is not a SINGLE person on this mailing list that would say that it | is right to create specifcations that are inconsistent, incomplete or | unclear. It is beyond doubt that specifications in the XML family, | including XML itself, have these problems. The question is how to avoid | that? Well, has anyone considered employing real, professional technical authors to write the specifications? Instead of (I presume) the progenitors of the ideas. I mean, the inventors of a standard are gurus in their technical area, but rarely would they have professional skills in communication and education ... So I say we ask some real experts ... in writing. Cheers, J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s... "Beyond the Idea" ACN 081 019 623 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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