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At 09:24 AM 11/22/99 +0000, Sean McGrath wrote: >OK. I see where you are coming from. My position is this:- >1) SML must be allowed to be born so that it can either >die of natural causes or flourish. >2) SML must be a subset (application profile) of XML. And SML must not claim, explicitly or implicitly, to "be XML". SML may or may not be a good idea. It would certainly be a bad idea to give lazy vendors a trapdoor so they could run around announcing "we support XML" while also rejecting XML 1.0 documents that don't happen to conform to this subset. Also bad to give arrogant I-don't-mess-with-other-peoples-code junior programmers an excuse to write their own partial parsers for fun thus wasting everyone's time and money. XML ain't perfect, but at this point it has pretty darn good interoperability. Messing that up would be a blunder of historic proportions. I would urge W3C to defend its copyright on the name "XML" quite vigorously in this scenario. >3) To quote Henry Thompson (I think) "We should stop worrying >and learn to love xLink". Speaking as the long-suffering co-chair of XLink, I predict that we're finally going to get that job done in the immediate future. And I think Henry (if it was him) has a point. -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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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