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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Robie" <Jonathan.Robie@S...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Obfuscating XML with namespaces > So far, the marketplace seems to be accepting the core standards of XML, > including XML, XSLT, DOM, and the non-W3C SAX. <snip> > Do we want the W3C to > spend another couple of years rethinking these decisions? Or do we want to > fragment the market with a set of competing standards? If we want > simplicity and interoperability, I do not think that either of these > approaches are helpful. The Marketplace giveth, and the Marketplace taketh away. What the W3C/XML did to ISO/SGML, someone else can do to the W3C, and someone *will* do it if the W3C standards prove unworkable in practice. There is a lot of unhappiness with their complexity and opacity out there -- see the "obfuscating XML" post that started this thread, Miroslav Nic's "standards and their users" post, or the various "stupid XML articles", etc. All I'm saying is that *if* there is a widespread feeling that a standards group has made a mistake, then rethinking, simplifying, and deprecating must be an option that is considered. As the saying goes, "cannibalize yourself, or someone else will do it for you."
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