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Re: Minimal XML Specification

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• Subject: Re: Minimal XML Specification
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:27:33 -0500
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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?

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.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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