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At 10:07 AM 2/16/01 -0800, Ben Trafford wrote: > The upshot is that I believe it would behoove our friends at W3C >to publish the roadmap I mentioned above, because it would help developers >choose which specs to go with, and give them an idea of what the whole >development picture would look like. I'd love to see such a creature, but I've spent the last three years writing them, more or less. Those roads have grown ever more twisted, as horse paths evolved into interstates on the same patch of land. On the other hand, it's got me thinking that maybe some of the problem is sheer nomenclature - the labels on the map. If, instead of calling everything in sight 'XML Something' and treating it like part of XML, the W3C assigned names to its specs that didn't make them sound like part of XML, developers might be a little less confused. That might create a little more space. Implementing those specs wouldn't be any easier, but maybe there'd be more room for smaller competitors which wouldn't have to compete with the 'XML' brand so directly. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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