[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: You call that a standard?
Nope, what you've described is a specification. Anyone can slap a document with some rules in it one the Web. Does that make it a standard? I designed a query language for XML when I was in college and you can read the description at http://www.xmldb.org/sixdml/sixdml-lang.html/. By your definition, it is a standard. To me that is worse than meaningless. It is meaninglessness masquerading as being meaningful. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM There are always two solutions to the problem: yours and the boss's. ________________________________ From: Alexander Jerusalem [mailto:ajerulists@v...] Sent: Wed 4/28/2004 9:58 AM To: xml-dev Subject: Re: You call that a standard? I don't agree at all. If a term has many meanings, that doesn't make it's meaningless. To deny this, is just a way of avoiding a necessary debate. A standard is a set of more or less strict rules that are known by a common name by which different parties can refer to it. And I think, you accept that every day for all practical purposes. Dare Obasanjo wrote: > The word "standard' when it comes to software and computer technology is usually meaningless. Is something standard if it produced by a standards body but has no conformance tests (e.g. SQL)? What if it has conformance testing requirements but is owned by a single entity (e.g. Java)? What if it is just widely supported with no formal body behind it (e.g. RSS)? > > Whenever I hear someone say standard it's as meaningless to me as when I hear the acronym 'SOA', it means whatever the speaker wants it to mean. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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