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2/1/2002 11:05:50 AM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote: > >Otherwise, 99% of the authors on this list >for XML and XSLT books would be out of work. Uhh, if the specs were simple and readable we would simply have to make an honest living :~) I vaguely remember doing that, back in the days before XML was the Next Big Thing. It wasn't so bad ... I'd happily go back to a life of honest toil in the vineyards of software if clear, simple specs were part of the bargain! <grin> I completely agree with Frank Richards: > If the people who have to implement specs can't understand them, > the specs won't be implemented. And having to get help from the > specifiers here on xml-dev goes against the whole idea of using an > ISO spec in the first place: I and any other geek in the world > should be able to figure out how to meet a spec, and > whether an implementation meets that spec, without needing personal > guidance from the author or a separate (and specific) book from > Oxford University Press. Or maybe, "the specs won't be implemented in an interoperable manner." *IF* some of these "tight" ISO specs have powerful ideas in there somewhere and the world is the poorer because they haven't been implemented, recasting them in a form that is readable outside the community that devoped them and defining a less "ugly" syntax should be a high priority for their advocates.
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