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Re: SML (was Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services)

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• Subject: Re: SML (was Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services)
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:44:54 -0500
• In-reply-to: <E18fNxK-0005hv-00@b...>

uche.ogbuji@f... (Uche Ogbuji) writes:
>> The only difference is now some of those people have decided to 
>>influence the directin and future of XML & it's attendant
>>technologies instead of just using it for what they want and ignoring
>> the dream of "SGML on the Web". 
>
>If these folks would only admit that the direction they are going is
>distinct from XML, there would be no problem.  What you describe is
>basically a fork, with the unfortunate error of appropriating the
>lineaments of the original branch.

Uche summed it up perfectly.  I keep asking myself "How can we break
these bastards?" but their hold seems pretty secure at the moment.

Unfortunate is right - I suspect for them as well as us.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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