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Re: Minimal XML Specification

• To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Minimal XML Specification
• From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
• Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:04:33 +1100
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Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>
>> What makes you think the community would have have changed anything by
>> spending more time to try to influence the spec?
>
What makes you think they couldn't have? 

> It's possible a few of the minor inconsistencies, unclear wording, and 
> outright mistakes could have been fixed had someone noticed them and 
> spoken up at the right time. However the major issues of design and 
> whether this was the right approach to a schema language really was 
> never on the table.
>
And people at the time knew this how? 

Cheers
Rick

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