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Re: Why 90 percent of XML standards will fail



Tim Bray wrote:

>         ... but remember Theodore Sturgeon's Law of Popular Art
> Forms, which extends nicely to XML (or any other) standards; it says:
>
>  "95% of everything is crap".

The full statement may attempt to place itself non-generically in crap
space, but given Tim's own remarks about the level of discussion on
xml-dev, this feels like a probablistic version of the liar paradox.

-Ron