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At 10:12 PM 12/15/99 +0000, Rzepa, Henry wrote: [...] > >We are delighted to be able to announce that OASIS have most generously >offered to host the list from January 1st, 2000. A press release announcing >this has been made available on the OASIS site; > I am delighted to add my delight to this message. Henry and I set this list up nearly three years ago and we have been overwhelmed with the way that you have contributed. I used to be very active as "moderator" of this list but for nearly a year have taken a self-imposed vow of silence. [More than one person at XML Europe was pleased to see I was still alive!]. That was only partly deliberate but I have been extremely pleased to see that the list has really moderated itself as far as content goes. It has had the spin-off that we feel no problem in loosing control because that has effectively happened. I may soon indulge myself slightly in posting a few forward- and backward- looks at XML in the context of this list. I have already had the privilege of being asked to talk at XML99 and I choose to highlight the role of this list and announce its future. [You can see a very accurate report on http://www.xml.com]. I have also handed in my text to the GCA (to whom I am very grateful for making my visit possible) - it should appear in the proceedings. Probably few of you appreciate how much work Henry has had to put in. Every week he gets e-mail bounces - many of which have to be replied to. He also doesn't have admin control over the server on which the hypermail sits, so that have been many things he simply couldn't do. And he has had his share of spam, listsniffing, and viruses. Henry and I have had a not very hidden agenda - to do our bit to help XML succeed and in that way CML would have the support of a worldwide community and set of tools. We are really delighted how universal XML is and it is now possible to go back to the chemical community and show that markup languages really offer a solution that no other approach does. You will appreciate that now that CML is starting to take off we are concentrating some of our activities there. We are delighted that there are several *.org and *.gov who are taking it up (regulatory, patents, safety, informatics etc.) and also know that it is being adopted in *.com. There is a growing range of freeware/open tools for CML and there are at least two editors written independently of our efforts. [Writing a good chemical editor is extremely difficult and I will probably be asking for help on the generic editor problem shortly.] We shall not of course be leaving XML-DEV and will continue to read and post. But we are going to try a new venture, very much in the spirit of the virtual community built here. The way in which members have communally contributed to discussion and construction has been priceless. I believe that the creation of SAX was certainly a highlight in my life. We have created a virtual learning environment for XML - VirtualXML. This is based on the values created on XML-DEV - mutual help, hard work, attention to detail and respect for others. In this environment - which will be created in XML as much as possible - we shall help newcomers to XML to learn both the technology and the philosophy of XML. And we expect to learn a great deal as well! We shall be announcing more details in the next day or so. Peter Murray-Rust ["moderator" of XML-DEV] 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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