- From: Octav Chipara <ochipara@cse.unl.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 23:42:53 -0600
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Martin Gudgin wrote: > I'm strongly against this. There is significant value in having a standard > data rep that everyone agrees on. Allowing multiple data reps leads to > incompatible implementations. Let's not open the door for that in XP. If > people want to use other data reps, they will anyway, but if we mandate a > data rep they won't be able to claim XP compliance. > > Gudge Gudge, you are absolutelly right ... but in 3 years we come up with a better data representation and what do we do? Nothing??!! Let's try to make this as flexible as possible so the standard could evolve over time. If we try to fix everything to something definite the protocol would not be able to use anything else. It is true that we would have problems of user disagreeing about data represention but we make a mandatory implementaion of a data rep. and than say how you can use any other one.... In this way you can claim XP compliance.... - Octav
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