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Tim Bray <tbray@t...> writes: > Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > > Um, as regards XML, you're joking, right? Look at the history. It's > > _completely_ unlike HTML, it was way out ahead of what any vendors > > were thinking about, much less trying-and-failing to interoperate. > > It was in fact a lot like XSLT and XML Schema: real new science was > > done in the WGs. > > > Er, I don't see it that way. We took the 5% of SGML that was widely > used, threw away the rest, insisted on using URIs for external > reference, and allowed skipping the DTD. The only really significant > new items were, I think: > > > - draconian error-handling > - rigid insistence on Unicode chars and nothing but > - the encoding signaling trick > > Not much new science there. I also think that the W3C excels when it > formalizes what has already been proven to work. -Tim We could quibble about what constitutes 'new science', but it was the certainly uncharted territory, and certainly _not_ a brokering of compromises as regarded existing major web vendor technology -- that was my main disagreement with Michael Champion. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2002, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
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