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I sympathize with the terminology pain. In working with semiotics, we deal with terms coined when Vicky was the Queen. I got lost in the HyTime/Groves/DSSSL terminology a long time ago. It is as said: obscure. But when one goes to abstract from existing standards, the question of normative references will come up. Drop those and it is a rip off. Leave those, and all one needs is a synonym dictionary to keep to the high road. Be careful here. You think of the SGMLers as an elite. I know them to be anything but that. I think of the W3C as ogilopolists. I loathe to move concepts originated in the commons into private hands pursuing pseudo-innovation. Lessig's problem is not realizing that his heros are the truck drivers for the ogilopoly. len From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...] > Or perhaps we could call them that and honor > those who came before. More respect and > less unattributed rip off would be a nice precedent, > and seriously overdue on the web. Otherwise, > we are just a bunch of tomb robbers. Oh. Come now. There are other and better ways to respect predecessors that to keep up a bad name. I mean, what's your problem with adding on any such spec: "This work is inspired by, and borrows many idead from Architecural forms"? I for one am glad that the sensible Ghanaians chose to rename the patchwork of nations the Brits stitched togather in to the "Gold Coast".
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