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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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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