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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > At 10:33 AM 4/3/00 -0400, Bob Kline wrote: > >On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > > >> [Eloquent plea for a definition of conformance ...] > > > >Peter: > > > >I'm afraid you'll find that an appreciation for the value of defining > >conformance is not universally shared by the drivers of the XML bus. > > Ah, but XML-DEV does not suffer from bus-drivers. It is like a swarm > of communal animals which takes many directions according to many > driving forces. So I am confidently optimistic that something may > come from this. Very likely so, but it won't be a clearly defined standard (with unambiguous criteria which can be used to identify conforming implementations). Standards-creating bodies sometimes operate successfully despite seemingly chaotic forces, but not because of them. -- Bob Kline mailto:bkline@r... http://www.rksystems.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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