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• Subject: Re: can you use inheritance (extension) in relax ng?
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:27:34 -0500
• In-reply-to: <9E7ADE44-07F7-11D8-9427-000A95A51C9E@t...>

On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 16:01 America/Detroit, Tim Bray wrote:
>

>   So what possible reason could Microsoft have for *not* making an 
> investment in RelaxNG?
>

I'm not sure I agree with Len that MS are being "nice guys" and leaving 
this to the open source community, but they do have an open (in the 
sense of well-defined and extensible) architecture that clearly can 
support an aftermarket.  So, what reason could open source projects or 
startup companies not have for building, say, a RelaxNG-powered Office 
2003 plugin that lets one take advantage of the MS XML capabilities 
without forcing them to endure the pain of W3C XSD for no gain (e.g., 
in the world of documents as opposed to data)?

I have s sinking feeling that the open source projects won't do it 
because of the well-known antipathy of MS for open source (and vice 
versa?), and the startups won't invest because they figure that some 
open source project will do it.  I hope I'm wrong!

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