- From: Charles F. Goldfarb <Charles@SGMLsource.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 04:48:58 GMT
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
On Tue, 08 Oct 1996 10:40:56 -0700, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>I'm going to have trouble voting on this. And it's *way* more important than the syntax of markup declarations.
From a technical standpoint, Tim is correct. Compared to a simplified DTD syntax
that captures only the XML information set, the perceived benefit of DSDs
becomes vanishingly small. From a business and political standpoint, though, the
divisiveness that a non-standard syntax would create overwhelms every other
consideration.
I urge Tim to withdraw the DSD proposal so that we can concentrate our energies
on the important technical issues.
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