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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jeni Tennison wrote: > > Any attempt to extend a language by voting reminds me of "popular > > movements", "party meetings" and the well-known results of these in > > history. Yes. Take the Boston Tea Party. It has very well known results and a tale that differs by perspective. Your point is? > I remember when I lurked on XML-Dev during the development of SAX and > XSchema feeling I didn't have much that I could positively add but > still wanted to have a say. That's why I thought that allowing people > to vote on the issues that had been discussed would give those people > a say. Turns out that everyone was skipping over the discussion, > objects to voting on religious or political grounds or basically > doesn't really care ;( Ho hum. Live and learn. Jeni, you are doing wonderfully and you have a keen sense of how to use XSLT (and how to dig useful information out of a fella who is floundering) > So anyway, I'll try another approach - writing a draft based on what I > think (naturally informed by the discussions we've had). Perhaps that > will rouse implementers to say "but I can't implement that!" and > authors to say "but I can't write this!". This would be welcome. It doesn't matter if it gets implemented or even moved into the spec; just that it is down on "paper" in a coherent form. Thank you! Clark XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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