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- To: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Open Standards Organization
- From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 19:10:56 -0700
- Thread-index: AcH8fUdGGwtPO7iPT7SvLZ18jAXofQAAXuaw
- Thread-topic: [xml-dev] Open Standards Organization
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@allette.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:13 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Open Standards Organization
>
>
> How about this for a rule?
>
> * No standard should be longer than 15 printed pages (at 12
> pts Times),
> excluding front and backmatter, tuorial material, DTDs or
> other XML code, and formal characterizations.
>
That's what I call starting off on the wrong track. I'm sure SiXDML
(http://www.xmldb.org/sixdml/) is longer than that yet I wouldn't
consider it an overly complex spec.
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