• To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Subject: Re: Do We Need James Clark to get Good Recs?
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:02:18 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <007601c27d73$f6ee5240$fe193044@tbp1>
• User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> Sometimes it seems to me that most of the XML-related Recs/Specs that
> xml-dev'ers approve of are those that James Clark had a major influence on.
> Sax is an exception, I suppose, but that had David M. playing a unifying
> role, so maybe it is in a similar category.

James Clark was involved with XML before it was a key technology for 
every big company in the world. The politics were secondary to the 
technology back then. Someone _like_ James Clark is a necessary but not 
sufficient condition to producing a great spec. The other half is that 
he and his co-workers need to be freed to work without constant pressure 
to add features before V1 ships.

  Paul Prescod

• References:
  • Do We Need James Clark to get Good Recs?
    • From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>

• Prev by Date: Re: The XML 500 word Challenge
• Next by Date: Re: Are XML's Good Ideas hidden? (was Re: Re:What are Schemas For?)
• Previous by thread: re: Do We Need James Clark to get Good Recs?
• Next by thread: RE: Do We Need James Clark to get Good Recs?
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread