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Tyler Baker wrote: > [D]espite > everyone crying about standards bodies being too slow, perhaps in this > case the WG is being too fast. Indeed. > All of this talk about extending DTD's and element type inheritance > seems to totally ignore the question of possible implementation. An > idea is just an idea until you something concrete behind it. XML has > the years of success of SGML behind it, but this namespaces stuff has > nothing behind it. And what's worse, there's an alternative (architectures) that actually has an implementation (David Megginson's XAF), plus years of SGML experience. > The secrecy process that > the W3C goes through makes me wonder sometimes if the W3C is simply a > corporation responsible to its shareholders (those who fork over the big > bucks to become members) rather than a real standards body for the > betterment of computing. That's *exactly* what it is. It's a *consortium*, which serves the interests of its members and no others. Unfortunately, we're stuck with it, until some ISO/IEC committee can be persuaded to take up XML (there is already one trying to create ISO HTML). ISO/IEC WGs may be horribly slow and politics-ridden, but they can't just *ignore* comments if they are properly submitted. They *have* to process all of them. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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