- From: Bill Smith <bsmith@atlantic-82.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:35:29 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
James Clark wrote: > In my experience what makes SGML hard to implement is not so much > particular features but the huge weight of hundreds of little features > like these, which are all individually fairly easy to implement, but > which collectively make implementing SGML hard and a lot of work. I > think it's vital that we be absolutely fanatical about excluding SGML > features from XML unless they are absolutely essential. We must avoid > the danger of looking at each feature individually and saying "I like > this feature, it's not difficult to implement, so let's leave it in". Well said. If a feature isn't essential, it shouldn't make the list.
Received on Thursday, 12 September 1996 15:40:38 UTC