- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:11:11 -0800
- To: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Fabrice Desré <fabrice.desre@francetelecom.com>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag@w3.org
Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM wrote:
> (I still prefer the term "usage convention" to "subset"
I don't. Let's call a spade a spade. SOAP/XMLPP have created an
incompatible subset of XML such that general-purpose XML generators
cannot reliably be used to generate their messages, and general-purpose
XML procedssors cannot reliably be used to receive them. It looks like
a subset, walks like a subset, quacks like a subset.
If this is going to happen, it should happen only once and the subset
should be well-defined and based on consensus. It is indeed instructive
that the two subsets seem pretty well isomorphic.
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Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
Received on Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:40:38 UTC