- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:18:51 -0500
- To: Andreas Mixich <mixich.andreas@gmail.com>, XProc Dev <xproc-dev@w3.org>
(oops, this didn't send properly from the airport) On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 13:00 +0100, Andreas Mixich wrote: > > [...] I would like to ask, what all that > Note: The XML Processing Model Working Group was closed in 2016. > on pages like the /XML Core Working Group Public Page/ and /XML > Processing Model Working Group/ page mean. It means in those cases that the groups that were writing the specs and/or maintianing them no longer exist at W3C. This can be for lots of different reasons. For XML Core for example we were very getting very few errata so we were meeting for twenty minutes every other week, then monthly, and finally stopped altogether. Similarly XML Schema closed after XSD 1.1 was a Recommendation and implemented and in use. > I am aware of the damaged state of XML, especially on the Web (HTML5, > JSON, etc.), but has XML lost its authoritative decisions body? Or > are these things now being done over at OASIS? No, when it's needed we (W3C) can reconvene Working Groups, and we are working on changing our process to be able to apply small errata ourselves when there's no Working Group. When the engineers have fixed upon an agreed size for making bricks and have gone home, that just means it's time to build more exciting stuff with the bricks. XML is alive and well. Thanks for asking! Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ - XML at W3C Staff contact for Verifiable Claims WG, SVG WG, XQuery WG Web slave for http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
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