> I just lost interest in both the RDDL and EXSLT discussions because I
> apparently missed the posts that said why these things were so necessary.
> What reason do these specs have to exist? What problems do they solve? Who
> should be reading them and building implementations around them? No one
> has bothered to put this information in the specs themselves.

As far as RDDL is concerned, I've documented the discussions leading
up to the specification of RDDL in a recent XML Deviant column [1].

XML.com also recently published my RDDL tutorial [2] which should also
provide some additional background and examples. I hope these are
useful.

[1]. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/10/rddl.html
[2]. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/02/28/rddl.html

Cheers,

L.


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