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I've just come back to xml-dev after a little absence, during which I've been busy working, watching my already small investment portfolio shrink daily, and using my leisure hours to get a private pilot's license instead of debating standards. I don't have any particular position in the current debates on XForms vs. Microsoft's thingy, XML 1.1, etc. -- most of it fails my who-else-but-us-could-possibly-care test -- but I'm delighted to see W3C committee members debating and defending their work on XML-dev. I hope that this is a sign that the W3C XML activity has opened up a bit in the two or three years since I left it. Here's some advice. To developers: Lighten up: W3C committee work truly [expletive deleted] (more than, say, sitting in a dentist's chair), mainly because of all the bureaucratic hoops and a tiny ratio of productive to unproductive time. These guys deserve a lot of credit and at least a little respect for sticking with it so long. To W3C committee members: Pay close attention: even though the developers sound more like paranoid survivalists than rational beings sometimes, they're the ones who will decide whether anyone ever cares about the standard you've wasted so much of your life working on. It doesn't matter that Sun, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Mrs. Fields' Cookies all sent out press releases praising your new Recommendation. If people like the XML devvers don't pick it up, probably no one else will. All the best, David -- David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/
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