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jcowan@reutershealth.com (John Cowan) writes:
>> You can believe that if it's what it takes to keep working on it,
>> but it looks like the W3C is building a stack to the sky. That
>> stack isn't the chaotic Tower of Babel that Mark Pesce and others
>> feared XML would create, but an ever-growing semantic stack that
>> tries too hard to create order where tolerance for chaos might be a
>> wiser strategy.
>
>Order magicians may need to retreat to their own island in order to
>get done what they want to get done; chaos magicians have the whole
>universe to play in. There is no reason why they should oppose one
>another.
If the "order magicians" would actually retreat to their own island, I
would agree. Instead they seem quite intent on specifying their will
and creating markets where order itself is highly valued. Setting
values for a market is difficult in theory but easier in practice,
especially given the participants in this exercise.
On the bright side, I think the "chaos magicians" are far likelier to
find this amusing.
--
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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