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Re: RELAX to ISO

• From: KenNorth <KenNorth@e...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:14:21 -0700

David Megginson writes:

> It doesn't make sense to pay too much attention to official government
policies on standards, etc.,

The pendulum swings back and forth. I've seen more than one instance of a
radical shift of direction due to government-mandated software and
standards. In one case, we had to port an entire application suite to a new
programming language. In another instance, over a million documents (and
related software) were redone.

Perhaps the more relevant question is "what's the objection to advancing XML
as an ISO standard?"
Why should XML be excluded from a path that we've taken with SGML, SQL, VRML
and a variety of programming languages?

There will be W3C activity on XML for years to come, so I don't see
standardizing XML as affecting the W3C's role as an incubator of new
versions.

• References:
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    • From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@m...>
  • Re: RELAX to ISO
    • From: Robin Cover <robin@i...>
  • Re: RELAX to ISO
    • From: David Megginson <david@m...>

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