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. -- Charles F. Goldfarb * Information Management Consulting * +1(408)867-5553 13075 Paramount Drive * Saratoga CA 95070 * USA International Standards Editor * ISO 8879 SGML * ISO/IEC 10744 HyTime Prentice-Hall Series Editor * CFG Series on Open Information Management --Received on Thursday, 10 October 1996 00:48:59 EDT
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