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> At 08:55 AM 3/27/01 -0500, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > >Kind of like somone saying "I want to start a working group > >to define the canonical use of milk". One person want to > >make cheese, the other, casein. > > I think OASIS lets you split off and set up competing working groups to > handle cases like this. Both groups could then develop different specs, > and publish them. That goes against the very spirit of the word > 'canonical', but since both cheese and casein are useful... Right. In this I think OASIS is probably right. I'm very much a fan of "the right tool for the job" philosophy, so I see no problem in having multiple specifications in a given domain, if that is the best approach. I think schemas are a great example of where, depending on the application domain, one might choose to use one form of validation over another. FWIW. I will say that the DOM had *huge* conflicts as well, and in retrospect, it amazes me that the DOM 1 specification came out as well as it did. I think this is a tribute to Lauren Wood, the chair, and to the people on the working group that were willing to compromise enough for consensus, but not enough to totally pollute it.
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