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SGML is a proprietary product. For Jane Developer at Mom's Code (or Keene NH
City hall if you want the government sector), The effective difference between
the ISO and the W3C is that ISO docs have to be ordered at great expense and
those from the w3c can be downloaded for free. Secondarily, w3c specs are
comprehensible to any skilled developer. SGML, HyTime and Arch Forms are all
incomprehensible word clouds. (Someody goofed on DSSSL, I understood that
one)
But
day to day there's no effective difference. The orgs it matters to are the
global 2000 businesses, and sovereign governments. W3C answers to the first, ISO
to the second.
Yeah
there's plenty wrong with business, but I totally fail to comprehend how
any survivor of the 20th century can think governments are
better.
I
don't have an answer to the Blueberry problem, but I won't buy canonizing the
ISO.
Frank
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