- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:24:36 -0400
- To: XML-uri@w3.org
At 12:15 PM 6/8/00 -0400, keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: >>I just finished work on a book on XML for Wrox. It should be hitting the >>shelves any second now. I'll be just sick to death if I have to go to the >>errata page and say "By the way, ignore the chapter on XML Namespaces. >The >>W3C changed their minds..." > >I hate to say it but that's an occupational hazard of publishing a hardcopy >book on something that's evolving as quickly as XML. Errata are going to >appear in the specs, and will have to be reflected into documents and code >based on those specs. > >That's a large part of why I haven't yet attempted to write an XML book >myself, despite invitations from a few publishers. I don't want to be in >the position of publishing something only to see it become outdated before >it hits the stands. It's definitely an occupational hazard, but what I see going on here is a substantial philosophical change to understood practice, not just obsolescence of a spec. Oh well, next edition... Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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