- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:20:05 -0800
- To: "Henry Lowe" <hlowe@omg.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
I tend to agree with Henry in that I find it difficult to evaluate this requirement based on the proposed wording. It might be a better strategy to turn the requirement up-side-down and say something like this: It should be possible to write simple, special purpose XP implementations which only can handle a small predetermined set of XP modules with potentially a fixed set of parameters. Henrik > The revision, IMHO, has gone a bit too far in that it has > abstracted out all the useful detail for judging whether > we have met this requirement (when we get down to doing XP > itself). Sort of like saying I want a restaurant with good > food without defining "good food" or giving examples of what > (I think) is good food -- a steak might fill the bill for > one person, whereas another fancies fresh cod (I sort of like > fried grasshoppers, once in a while ;-)
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