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   RE: [xml-dev] W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box

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Wow! What politics would be of interest to the WG entity consisting of
representatives from numerous competing organizations? 

If you're implying that individual organizations are playing politics,
then of course I buy that but I find it hard to believe that
representatives from individual organizations would have the skill to
manipulate so many others.

-aaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
> 
> The fact that a number of W3C Working Groups make a political decision
to
> create interdependencies amongst W3C recommendations (some of them
even
> circular) does not say anything about the technical merits of W3C XML
> Schema. It is indeed an indictment of the W3C process and their idea
of
> "layered specs"
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Aaron Skonnard [mailto:aarons@develop.com]
> 
> 	> To the extent that that is the case, to say "XSD is here to
stay"
> 	> a statement of branding and power rather than anything
concerning
> 	> technical merits or compatability.
> 
> 	The fact that the W3C has assumed XML Schema in layered specs
like
>    XPath
> 	2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XML Query (the original argument) says a lot
about
> 	the technical merits considering the W3C process.
> 
> 	-aaron





 

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