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David Megginson writes: > It doesn't make sense to pay too much attention to official government policies on standards, etc., The pendulum swings back and forth. I've seen more than one instance of a radical shift of direction due to government-mandated software and standards. In one case, we had to port an entire application suite to a new programming language. In another instance, over a million documents (and related software) were redone. Perhaps the more relevant question is "what's the objection to advancing XML as an ISO standard?" Why should XML be excluded from a path that we've taken with SGML, SQL, VRML and a variety of programming languages? There will be W3C activity on XML for years to come, so I don't see standardizing XML as affecting the W3C's role as an incubator of new versions.
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