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RE: Markup perspective not code (was RE: Re: URIs,

  • To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, 'XML DEV' <xml-dev@l...>
  • Subject: RE: Markup perspective not code (was RE: Re: URIs, concrete)
  • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:48:40 -0500

RE:  Markup perspective not code (was RE:  Re: URIs
It is accurate to say that the programmers had their say and 
made their most important contributions during the design 
of XML 1.0.  I don't think that bought them the party for 
the rest of the development.

Keep ISO 8879 alive.  It is ISO that guarantees that markup 
is the property of the commons.  XML was a coup to make it 
the property of a consortium and to bring it under the control 
of a self-appointed, self-selected group that now insists 
it knows best what the people need.  It took a fight to 
keep it a proper subset of SGML, and those who think and 
still propose SGML "be stabbed in the back", are serious 
idiots, well-trained, but foolish, poltitcally and socially 
naive, and to be ignored.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:04 PM
To: 'XML DEV'
Subject: RE:  Markup perspective not code (was RE: 
Re: URIs, concrete)


At 05:13 PM 8/1/2002 -0600, Aaron Skonnard wrote:
>:-) Well, we obviously don't interpret it the same way. Such a
>fundamental divide seems like reason enough to me, especially if you
>expect programmers like me to respect your earlier statement about the
>list.

I've stopped bowing and scraping before programmers, so I'm not sure I'd be 
worried about their respect either.

Freeing markup from programmers seems the best way to ensure its continued 
survival at this point.

Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue


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