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> What was very noticeable from the early and crappy way that many > applications did not support xml:lang properly, or encodings... > It would not be solved by reducing the spec: if you just have > elements, data and comments someone would immediately try to get rid of > comments. Yes, the 80% (this is good enough for now) philosophy applies to *any* standard. The only thing I can think of that *might* alleviate some of the problems would be using ASN for the specs... Again, XML conformance, for a relatively young standard is generally *excellent*. The fact that XML parsers are a commodity* (thereby meaning that many people use the same parser), means that interoperability is even better than one might otherwise get. ---- * I should note that Tim was one of the folk that very accurately predicted that the parsing technology would rapidly become a non-issue in terms of implementation.
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