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I understand and am familiar with your views on closed groups and they are similar to mine. I am possibly just more roadweary so don't fight the herd over that. I'd like to keep the technical issues such as that here where everyone, technical and not so technical alike can see what XML is up against when it comes down to getting the application languages to interoperate via sharable infrastructures. It isn't as easy or simple as once presented. Also, for purely selfish reasons, I learn a lot from this and can't keep up with more lists. To me, a PSVI via XML Schema is ok because once into an application language, what the processors do afterwards is purely application specific. On the other hand, making all application languages (eg, XSLT) depend on that requires a different kind of contract, and assuming that any XML application language does, is simply wrong. That goes against what markup has been about since before XML. The GIs are just labels and the markup inventors went to some trouble and pain to make sure that SGML at least was somewhat constrained on the front end. It is not a programming language. The ambitions to do more on the front end are harmful. However, once into an application language, that language community has to decide what is best for them and what contracts they can make with others. It is no more right for XML to constrain that than for that to constrain XML. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] I think you took quarantine to mean something stronger than I meant; it's reasonably obvious that I don't support private discussions devoted to solving public problems, especially in the XML field.
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