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Re: Why Use anyURI

• From: Greg Hunt <greg@firmansyah.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:29:26 +1000

Michael,
The earlier poster seemed to be complaining not about the length of
time, but about the complete lack of response.  Your phrase "length of
time" suggests that something will happen when in fact, according to
Bjoern Hoehrmann, the WG decided to ignore the comments that had been
made.  Or by saying in effect that people should just be patient, did
you just suggest that action is being taken to address these ignored
issues?  It is difficult to interpret your comment about needing to
wait in another way.

David Lee
Regarding the earlier comment about doctors... the problem space is
not huge and is not growing indefinitely - there are not a lot of new
papers about setting broken legs and schema validation is more like
leg setting than exploring obscure interactions between proteins or
evolving influenza strains.  Medical papers are remarkably
unscientific in the popular sense, in that they are not definitive,
this is what the Cochrane collaboration addresses.  In computing,
unlike medicine, we do not need to apply statistical techniques to
multiple papers to discover whether a parsing algorithm works and so
the range of potential studies on a subject is much smaller.

Greg

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>
>> Is Michael saying that the XML Schema spec is so large and has so many
>> problems it has actually been effectively unmaintainable for the last five
>> years?
>>
> I wouldn't say it's unmaintainable - but it's certainly a spec where adding
> features without introducing bugs is challenging.
>>>
>>> When I saw that this was the situation, I decided to stop moaning from
>>> the sidelines and join the WG. The situation might be different if more
>>> people had done the same.
>>
>> ?? Sending in serious comments is "moaning"?
>
> By "moaning", I didn't mean sending in comments, I meant complaining about
> the time taken to respond to them.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
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