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Simon wrote, >>We've been over this too many times, so I'll end here with a plea to spec developers and their explainers. Make your specifications as comprehensible as you can to as wide an audience as you can, so that all of us can spend more time writing implentations and less time debating what the specs mean.<< I would second that. It should be just as easy to write clear English as it is to write gobblydy-gook. There is absolutely no reason why a spec. cannot be both precise and understandable. As no less a person than Albert Einstein said, "If you can't explain a proposition to an intelligent layman the proposition is probably flawed" . Specs have both 'Normative' and 'informitive' parts to them. A little more work on the informtive parts would be very useful. Frank Frank Boumphrey XML and style sheet info at Http://www.hypermedic.com/style/index.htm Author: - Professional Style Sheets for HTML and XML http://www.wrox.com CoAuthor: XML applications from Wrox Press, www.wrox.com Author: Using XML on the Web (March) 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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