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From: Tom Bradford [mailto:bradford@d...] >The needs of the many outweigh the "oh crap, I have to maintain my >software" complaints of the few. I'd say a thousand or so programmers >updating (not rewriting) their parsers to support blueberry is a small >price to pay for the uncountable who will benefit from it in the future. But wasn't the XML DePH hacker argument precisely that we needed to make things easy for a few thousand or so programmers? Have we suddenly decided that now we must make their lives harder rather than simply using SGML? Or is it possible we have a hard time admitting XML is something of a fraud? Ok, strong language... a weak imitation of its parent for which this was not a problem except that it it kept the implementation problem squarely in the hands of implementors. >> But it has failed. Thus Blueberry. >Exactly... So we fix it, and help to further avoid future problems. Or we kick it back to the parent for which this is not a problem. Of course, then we have to say XML is something of a fraud and the W3C doesn't own or control the solutions. They won't like that or us. >> You are living in Hell? Do you have flooding there too? >Phoenix, AZ is Earthbound version of hell, and yeah, we have flooding >during the monsoon. Ah. But it's a dry heat compared to North Alabama. We have better tasting water than Phoenix which is why I am out buying up rights faster than Vivendi. Of course, the Canadians are the future of water monopolies. >The W3C isn't a standards body? Could have fooled me: > http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1174 They fool a lot of people. They are a private consortium. It's like Scottsdale: some golf courses are open to the public and some aren't. len
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