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>XML.COM asked me to write an article on SML: it is now up in >the current issue www.xml.com Nice article. I just love good analogies. <g> >I hope it is more conciliatory. During the XML development, >many people who were antagonistic to SGML got a grudging >respect for it, and many SGML people who doubted toy languages >would work shifted their positions too. I expect the same thing >can happen with SML: it may go in an unexpected direction. It was. Although SML is still heading in the same direction, SML-DEV is going in unexpected directions. First, SML-DEV is taking a more open, experimental attitude toward new ideas. While XML-DEV is a great place, I have always felt that it was more of a dining room than a kitchen. People could use SML-DEV to cook half-baked ideas into a more presentable form before bringing it to the [dining] table. Second, SML-DEV is going to be expanding our focus to other XML related standards and release 'usage' specs. SML itself will probably be a 'usage' spec as well. The idea is to formalize common practices and to discourage unhealthy practices (i.e. Safe-SAX). For those who don't know where SML-DEV is located, here is a pointer: http://www.egroups.com/group/sml-dev/info.html Don't forget to bring your Ginsu knives. <g> Best, Don Park - mailto:donpark@d... Docuverse - http://www.docuverse.com 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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