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Title: It's
good to acknowledge the ISO cooperated with the XML effort. How satisfied
ISO
is
with the results is anyone's guess. At some point in the future,
they will have
alternatives as long the options are preserved. In this case, I
would say they
need
to make sure the next five year revision of ISO 8879 addresses concerns
raised
during the XML initiative as XML does represent the largest
development and
fielding of SGML systems, therefore, a source of enormously valuable
feedback.
That
said, the editor of the SGML standard is quoted as saying that SGML and
XML
have different applications. This part I don't quite get, but I
don't think it
invalidates concepts such as redesigning the SGML Declaration to be
clearer
to
implement, more applicable to current and emerging systems, and shed the
obsolete bits (capacities).
I
think it clear that it is in no one's best interest to fight nor is there any
looming battle. Understanding standards, specs, processes,
and their
relationship to legal authority, rights, and obligations is part of the
maturing
of the
web in general. I think an important part of that can happen in the
markup
communities given the prominence of this technology in the majority
of
technical development efforts. This isn't new. Such thoughts have
been,
in my experience, prominent in the
thoughts of many of the markup developers
for at least two decades. It
keeps us honest. :-)
Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@ingr.com http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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