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- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:57:30 -0500
True. XML is a subset of SGML. Will that
sell more systems or change anyone's mind
about the design of XML?
What is most important is that the wisdom
of SGML On the Web (eventually christened XML) as a subset
of SGML, and of the W3C work proceeding along with
the ISO work, and of both organizations committing
to keeping these relationships open and working was
realized by all parties. Otherwise, the work of one
may have been marginalized while the work
of the other could have been cited as a flagrant
act of theft of the intellectual property of the
other. There certainly was a dog fight over the
relationships but there was a compromise that has
worked to everyone's advantage. It is a fact that
all of these groups overlapped membership to a
considerable degree. The NIH factor is mostly a
consultancy concern. That is what is irrelevant.
Establishing a cooperative relationship was the
essential accomplishment.
Cooperation is better. In the end, a market
enabling a faster evolution for markup technologies
emerged.
Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety
clbullar@ingr.com
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram
Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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