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Mike, > My impression is that the W3C thinks of XML1.0 + namespaces + xml:base, > with PIs sortof deprecated and MAYBE including XSDL, as the moral > equivalent of XML 2.0 Maybe that's right. And you raise a lot of other very valid points. I'm going to add your suggestions to my XML 2.0 list if that's ok with you. David Lyon On Sunday 14 October 2001 05:36, Champion, Mike wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Lyon [mailto:david@g...] > > Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 12:50 AM > > To: Jeff Greif; david@g...; Bullard, Claude L (Len); > > xml-dev@l... > > Subject: Re: XML 2.0 Specifications and working groups > > [usual disclaimer applies even more than usual!] > > > I'm particularly interested in collecting a list of issues > > with the XML 1.0 specifications as they apply to the practical world and > > then > > > translating these into something more positive. It may be that XML 2.0 > > might be bigger and better, or it may be that it's smaller, faster and > > more > > > succinct. > > My impression is that the W3C thinks of XML1.0 + namespaces + xml:base, > with PIs sortof deprecated and MAYBE including XSDL, as the moral > equivalent of XML 2.0 > > One fact that is seldom noted is that SOAP 1.1, and (currently) SOAP 1.2 > implicitly define a subset of XML 1.0 ( no DTDs or PIs), but with namespace > support and (perhaps in 1.2) xml:base support required. Without a DTD, you > can't define most of the things that cause people grief in the practical > world. > > > That's up to us where we all wish to take it. > > Here's a concrete idea: sort of an XML Wikipedia-like > http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?HomePage open-content effort to document > and explain the parts of the XML Family that people find truly useful in > real life. I'm not sure if there is a way of keeping the focus on what > people actually use rather than fun stuff that people think about or play > with [Hmmm ... the Wikipedians say that they really don't have as big a > problem with cranks and zealots as one might expect ...]. > > Anyway, I don't really know much about WikiWiki or other open content > projects or the technology behind them. I do believe that it is EXTREMELY > unlikely that the W3C would take on the task of refactoring XML based on > what works in the practical world; the W3C tries to operate on the basis of > consensus among its members, and it's much easier to get consensus on doing > "A and B" than choosing between "A or B". (Not to mention the fact that a > BigCo will not take kindly to a spec that deprecates a feature they have > invested heavily in supporting). I can at least hope that some sort of > natural selection process would make a an open content XMLipedia focused on > what people really know and care about; the bleeding edge stuff will be > flagged with enough questions, comments, and revisions so that the > boundaries of "what really works" will be apparent to the reader. > > Does anyone think such an idea makes sense? Is the "Wiki paradigm" really > worth latching on to? If so, how does one move forward ... I guess this > could be grafted on to Wikipedia itself ... On the other hand, we really > should eat our own dogfood and use XML. I have the premonition that Dave > Winer will tell me that some combination of OPL and RSS (+XML-RPC?) would > do what I envision better than Wiki does .... > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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