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Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org> writes:
> 4/22/2002 7:59:13 PM, <jwrobie@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >I do think that the W3C has had some pretty big
> >successes, including HTML and XML.
>
> Hmm, the last of these was more than four years ago. And both of
> them resulted from the W3C's "old" role as a place where vendors can
> come together to define interoperability profiles of reasonably
> well-understood technologies.
Um, as regards XML, you're joking, right? Look at the history. It's
_completely_ unlike HTML, it was way out ahead of what any vendors
were thinking about, much less trying-and-failing to interoperate. It
was in fact a lot like XSLT and XML Schema: real new science was done
in the WGs.
ht
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