- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:38:28 -0400
- To: www-qa@w3.org
QA WG and QA IG I had forgotten to send that a few weeks ago Composition by Micah Dubinko http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2005/07/20/deviant.html A quote [[[ In the realm of standards, both derivation and composition take place. Derivation might occur when one specification forms an extended subset of another—almost always a sign that something has gone horribly wrong. At a basic level, though, composition happens all the time in the normal course of producing specifications. A look at the XML 1.1 specification shows eight "normative" references, including the Unicode specification, which forms the basis for much of XML's interoperability. Designing an XML vocabulary is a special case of producing a specification. Despite XML Namespaces finalization more than five years ago, architects are still uncovering trouble in applying composition in XML, more commonly referred to under the banner "compound documents." The first to look at this week is a revision to XLink. ]]] -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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