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> From: David Megginson [mailto:david@m...] > [...] > Since SAX is through its initial rapid-development stage, I'm inclined > to hand it over to an institution rather than to an individual. I've > considered the W3C and OASIS, but since SAX is really a developers' > project rather than a standards-writers' project, I wondered if the > Apache Project might not make the best home -- they're well set up to > deal with this sort of thing, and have demonstrated a high degree of > technical competence. Although you say that SAX is a "developers' project rather than a standard-writers' project", SAX has had a huge impact and become a de facto standard for parsing XML. I think there is great value in that, and it would be great to see that further leveraged rather than lost. Microsoft, for instance, supports SAX2 in there MSXML3 parser. I don't know that they'd be inclined to follow further developments on SAX if Apache took ownership of it. It's worthwhile, here, to make a distinction between the APIs and the implementation. I wouldn't see anything wrong with Apache taking ownership of an implementation. But it sure would be nice to see the W3C adopt the SAX APIs as a standard interface for parsing. It would be a nice complement to the DOM. Any further development on the APIs by the W3C would undoubtedly continue to receive broad vendor support. I don't know that the same could be said for further development on it by Apache. Some vendors love Apache; some vendors hate it. Of course, the W3C has its hands full, so this probably isn't viable. But some sort of vendor-neutral organization would be better than, I think, Apache.
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