[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: opposition to ISO XML?
Might work. If all we are after is a named reference, I don't see why not. Again, I think we could use the strategy that Rick Jeliffe suggests where we cite SGML and the right declaration. It would be ALL THE OTHER XML SPECs such as XSLT that would then be a problem, but they would be anyway. For the contracting issues, we are dealing lawyerSpeak, not tech. The Web3D/ISO cooperation works fantastically. As in many things, it may just come down to the individuals. Richard Puk and Steve Carson do a fantastic job and Dick is accepted as one of the crowd without reservation. There are some who lament that VRML development goes too slow now, but they tend to blame the consortium itself and yearn for the days when only youngWildEyedEnthusiasts dominated the discussion. Oh well... The reality is, without a lot of volunteers, none of this gets done in any community. XML is a much bigger community but I have to say, I'd sooner serve as a Florida ballot counter than spend a day in another cheap motel in San Jose trying to stay awake while the headHead reads the meeting minutes. :-) Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] Sure. The logical thing for an ISO XML would be a normative subset/application of SGML, defined as such, that just happened to be 100% compatible with W3C XML. James Clark's W3C Note (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml) would be a logical base document. Of course, there are just soooo many people in the community who are ready, willing, and able to work on such a thing....
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