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Len's here. Playing to the fourth wall isn't good acting. Do we have to wait until we are starving to figure out that crop rotation is a good practice, or that low growing wheat feeds millions while traditional crops fail? If so, then only the strong survive because they are going to be the ones with the keys to the grainary. Show me your profits. Let's just get the smart guys together. Ok. Microsoft. They publish schemas for their products. We can cite DataDiagramML and leave SVG to [expletive deleted] hind tit. Very smart guys did the Visio work, so why not let IT be the standard? We can use VML for the light work because the DLL for that is sitting on more desktops than all of the other graphics standards combined regardless of what organization created them. Hey, it's XML and if you are using SVG, just write some XSLT. Incompatible object models? Too bad. We only validate. It's always easy to shape soft metal; it is hard to make it keep that shape under a load. Make specifications with gold; make standards with steel. len From: David Megginson [mailto:dmeggin@a...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >>The fact is that ISO never did well with computer technology, either before >>*or* after XML. > > The fact is that where ISO works with a technical consortium, they do quite > well. They can do better. I wonder what Len would hold out as ISO's great computer technology successes, leaving aside cases where they simply rubber-stamped some existing consortium's work (i.e. Unicode and a few others)? We can always pretend that ISO's Great Unimplemented Standards would have worked better than the specs that people actually use, but without real field experience, who knows? Lots of designs look good on paper but fall apart in the field. For example, one ISO Standard that wasn't stillborn, SGML, had significant interoperability problems: many of us on this list once made money primarily from helping people work around them. All the best, David ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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