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I agree, but I think that is what Henry has in mind. He has to speak for himself. My theory here is that different people have different ideas about what the common data model it. AFAIK, the current infoset supports XML 1.0 well-formedness well but only partially supports different application languages and XPath (it's own thing; not XML really). We aren't forking. We've known forever this problem existed. Again, the grove guys weren't noodling for their edification and Newcomb has repeatedly stressed in this forum that a simple DOM API wouldn't cut it in the long run if one wants to do all of these ambitious things. We don't have to fork. What I am trying to figure out is if we have to loopback and increase the size of the orignal infoset. That spooks me. It might look like an increase in complexity (everyone has to implement it) or it actually makes everything thereafter easier to implement because the complexity gets handled in one bite. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:38 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: is that a fork in the road? "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > We are not forking. We are on the > road we've been in for a long long > time. We are a lot closer to some > goals, and others will always move > as soon as we get to the others. > That is why they pay us the big bucks. I am not so sure. In the process of enlarging the circle, if we keep all tight together there is a risk to fork. On the other hand, if the pieces are kept separated into relatively independent modules, people will be able to take those that they need and we have a chance to avoid a split and to keep a core. In other words, I think that the centrifugal strength may become strong enough that if we'd better define where the pieces can be separated for otherwise the whole stuff might explode ! The system is becoming heavier every day and people need to be able to choose which pieces they need and want.
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