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I'm not sure I understand where you got the notion that I expect our users to read specs. My response quoting the XML infoset REC was part of making an argument that our users aren't the target audience of the REC.
As for the rest of your post and another of your mails, you imply that Microsoft should be going it's own way instead of following the W3C recommendations. Unfortunately, we do not have that luxury as an industry leader. I can just imagine the flak that'll come down when the "Microsoft To Ignore W3C And Go All Proprietary For XML" headlines start to circle the 'net.
We participate in the working groups and we try to encourage them to come up with solutions that satisfy our users. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. However we do not control the W3C or the working groups we sit on regardless of how comforting it is to blame the complexity of W3C XML Schema (for example) on Microsoft[0]
[0] http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/16/121422/461#aaronxsd
-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
Sent: Wed 8/21/2002 6:31 AM
To: Dare Obasanjo; Sam Hunting
Cc: Mike Champion; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature of DOM
That's nuts. No sane vendor requires their production users
to read specifications to figure out why the vendors' products
don't work right, and no experienced manager blames the
specifications. They accept the responsibility to fix the
problem.
Get this through your head: <strong>They Blame Microsoft.</strong>
It is YOUR problem.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
The target audience of the infoset REC was authors of specifications and
the readers of said specs and not end users. I quote from the
introduction
"This specification defines an abstract data set called the XML
Information Set (Infoset). Its purpose is to provide a consistent set of
definitions for use in other specifications that need to refer to the
information in a well-formed XML document [XML]. "
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