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Tim Bray and Rick Jeliffe have it right. We've been through this before. This is a good time for OASIS to add a prominent page that can be referred to on the history of markup technologies. I say that with deliberation. Without understanding developments back to the original GenCode, GML, SGML, and now XML, one always gets a skewed view of the invention and reinvention of the critical concepts. I doubt that anyone personally involved would object to it, and if it were reviewed openly, comments reconciled, etc (as deRose et al did for their HyTime book), I think an excellent saga would result. You need the reviews because there are lots of instances where one point of view simply doesn't tell the story (the Rashomon effect). Otherwise, you will have to keep doing this over and over every time a journalist or a vendor needs a controversy to get a few hits or to promote a point of view advantageous to their new product. Don't leave it to the hacks; get the first person stories while the eyes and ears that saw and heard are still available. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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