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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > I suspect strongly that industry practice for XML will diverge as sharply > as it did for HTML and SGML, leading to lots of 'practices' that render XML > document sets mutually unintelligible to different processors. Since market differentation is how companies market their products, it is not in their best interest to follow a standard all that closely anyway. With the current licensing practices, this should not be new to anybody. It dosn't matter how good the standard is or how quicky it is written down. The market mechanism will force industry practice divergance, independent of the value provided. Clark 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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