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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4546 ------- Comment #8 from mike@saxonica.com 2007-11-08 10:06 ------- Personal response: I'm OK with parenthesizing the sentence as suggested - this would also seem to satisfy Howard who wanted the sentence removed as redundant. As a matter of principle, I don't think we can behave as if it's OK to change the spec if all known implementors get round the table and agree. It's a public spec and the public are entitled to stability. People who implement it aren't required to register their interest with W3C, and in fact it's quite common for implementations of specifications to exist that are not widely known (there have been XSLT 1.0 implementations produced for in-house use within a single company, and there have been implementations that were never marketed outside Japan, for example). Also, closer to home, people who have bought a Saxon license believing that they were buying a conformant product are entitled to continue using it knowing that once conformant, it will remain conformant - much as I would like them to upgrade.
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