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> These features increase > complexity without adding significant value and only found their way > into XML in the first place because certain vested interests wanted them > to ease the migration path from SGML to XML. Even if you are right that those features do not add significant value (and various people would debate you about any particular one of them), it is hardly fair to propose XLink and schemas as replacements when they were hardly gleams in our eyes three years ago. Most of XML's extra features went in not because of established interests but rather because they were known solutions to known problems and we did not have the courage to presume that solutions would become readily available. The millenium approaches and it turns out that the solutions still do not exist in standardized forms. Both XLink and schemas are still in the lab and both groups are trying desperately to REDUCE their responsibility for replacing existing XML features, not INCREASE it. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "Like most religious texts, the XML 1.0 spec has proven itself internally-inconsistent, so we're going to have to invent some kind of exegetical method now to show how it's really all an allegory." - Anon 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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