xml-dev - Re: Will XML change the character of W3C?

[Miloslav Nic <nicmila@idoox.com>]

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
> 

> 
> Had XML not been a W3C project, it is likely
> (if deRose could have gotten his pages and pages and
> pages of changes in), it could have come from ISO.  It
> is hard to imagine how the barriers, real and political
> that were being erected could have been torn down though.
> Going to the W3C was the fastest way to go around the
> Imagi-Not Line.
> 
> Frankly, I would have preferred ISO but I saw the
> personalities in action and knew that wasn't going

If it was an ISO Standard it would have had to be purchased 
and I would have never started with XML (at least not  in this
millennium :) ).

The smallest details are sometimes the most important.

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