Bjoern Hoehrmann writes: > * Henry S. Thompson wrote: >>Bjoern Hoehrmann writes: >> >>> Saying that an inferior authority must obey a superior authority does >>> not imply that the superior authority is limited by choices any such >>> inferior authorities have made. We might find that taking such choices >>> into consideration is the responsible thing to do, but that is not what >>> the text says, and certainly not how authorities tend to operate. Look >>> no further than the +xml discussions where people do not find they need >>> to re-define +xml in a manner compatible with all existing +xml types. >> >>Actually, we've been continuing to struggle with that, [...] > > Yes, indeed. That is the problem with the interpretation you proposed. Sorry I wasn't clear -- by "been continuing to struggle with" I meant "been working to achieve compatibility with all existing types". ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam]Received on Sunday, 22 April 2012 10:26:30 UTC
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