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RE: And the DTD says, "I'm NOT dead yet!!"
- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:14:18 -0500
At 10:23 AM 1/8/01 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>The problem is authority and credibility. If
>the public statements of the authorities are
>at odds with the policy as expressed in the
>record of authority, credibility suffers.
>One can privately agree to disagree, but the
>public statements make for political problems
>which will turn into technical problems.
Which only gets more complex when the design issues docs at the W3C and
early Notes get cited as axiomatic.
(http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture.html)
(http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-webarch-extlang)
(etc.)
Fortunately, pointing this out on a regular basis does some to keep it down
somewhat.
Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
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