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Re: SAX2 bugs -- please file!



On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 07:44:58PM +0200, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:
> The question may be completely out of scope here, and I'm readying myself
> for a flame mail flood, but how come such a standard end being hosted on
> SourceForge ?
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> Maybe the root question is : why is SAX under the org.xml.sax package,
> whereas DOM is in the org.w3c.dom ? Why isn't SAX hosted on the W3C site ?
> Is there an historical / legal / other reason for this ?

The terrible, terrible truth is that SAX was created collaboratively on
this very mailing list. See
http://www.megginson.com/SAX/SAX1/history.html for more information.

How it succeeded without being under the W3C's aegis, I will never know.

-- Edd