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Re: Notes on the process

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 14:10:39 -0400
Message-Id: <199705091810.OAA13799@nathaniel.ebt>
To: Todd.Freter@Eng.Sun.COM
CC: bsmith@atlantic-82.Eng.Sun.COM, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>I think that these scenario discussions are interesting but ultimately they
>involve other ideas:
>
>(1) XML's problem space: what kinds of applications is it designed to support?
>
>(2) Fault-tolerance: what should happen to data when, for any reason, it is
>not well formed? (And doesn't that relate to the kind of application being
>considered?)
>
>(3) Imagination: just what kinds of limits can anyone put on the future of
>Internet-based applications? The marketplace always surprises me.

Right. None of these really have any relation to the XML *language* per se,
nor should they.
Received on Friday, 9 May 1997 14:12:06 EDT

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