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RE: breaking up?
- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
- To: Mike.Champion@S..., xml-dev@l...
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:43:23 -0500
Title:
That
worked for the SGML implementors who didn't need the options. The
inventor of SGML once told me he was surprised more didn't do that.
The
trick
is selling it. If the web has demonstrated anything, though, it
convinces
me
that the need to belong followed by the need to dominate are so
ingrained
in
mammals as to be instinct. We lead by plausible logic then dominate
by
plausible promises. In truth, the future is what you are willing to
fight
for and that is why the instinct is to belong first. You have to make it
happen
and making it happen means choosing who chooses choices.
No one
owns the intellectual property and it takes deep pockets to
fight
for copyrights and trademarks. Avoid the latter, use the former
as you
see fit. Interoperability like religion is "a smile on a
dog".
Len
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
Ekam
sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
> From: Michael Brennan
[mailto:Michael_Brennan@a...]
>
> Too bad we can't go back and start
over with the benefit of hindsight.
Why can't we? SOMEBODY is going to
do this SOMEDAY ... why not us, now?
You don't need a new standards body or
sanctioned working group to document an XML subset (or SGML profile, if you
want) that simply ignores the stuff that doesn't carry its weight. "Just
say no" to defaulted attributes, ambiguous namespaces, validating with schema
languges that are harder to use than to write procedural business logic, and
so on. Even if implementers can't "go back and start over", users can
ignore that which doesn't help them solve real problems, authors and
consultants can recommend that which does work, purchases can be made on the
basis of what really works, etc.
If the folks "leading the web to its
full potential" via the PSVI-oriented specs turn around in a couple of years
and discover that no one is following, why is that a problem for the rest of
us? Conversely, if they *do* sort it all out and make it work in the
real world someday, what have we lost by letting them do the bleeding on the
bleeding edge?
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