- From: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:52:27 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> was heard to say: |>Unfortunately, a number of user communities have expressed a need to |>work with only a subset of XML. The TAG is concerned that if these |>needs are not addressed quickly (and centrally), a number of slightly |>different XML subsets will arise and if this trend continues, the |>stability of XML as the basis of a whole range of technologies could |>be jeopardized. | | These communities are wrong. They should be told not to subset XML | syntax as an architectural principle. If they choose to do so anyway, | then the W3C should not bless this behavior. It is an interoperability | disaster. Honestly, that would be my preferred position in an ideal world. But this isn't an ideal world and there's plenty of evidence that there are user communities determined to subset. So I think the best compromise for interoperability is to make sure there's one subset they can all refer to instead of having eleven different ones. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM | Well-being is attained by little and little, XML Standards Architect | and nevertheless it is no little thing Web Tech. and Standards | itself.--Zen of Citium Sun Microsystems, Inc. | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+KBirOyltUcwYWjsRAvawAKCkhioItuhHFJpLGpaSFu3axV8ZkQCeOtYf aSuq/gIudD+BfhPOePJ5CL4= =Z+Io -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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