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Uche Ogbuji writes:
> > Standards should be based on existing practice; failing that,
> > there should be ample opportunity for designs to compete.
>
> Absolutely. This is, and always has been the crux of the problem
> with XQuery and company. Yes, in XML we've become used to
> "standardization" committees that are really research teams, and
> this is not always bad. We've had some good stuff such as XPath
> 1.0 emerge, and it actually worked out in the marketplace.
I think that it's wonderful that we have the W3C as a large, funded
industry consortium committed to royalty-free R&D, and it's wonderful
that we have the W3C as a large, funded industry consortium committed
to royalty-free standards.
The only unfortunate part is the tendency to mix the two roles -- an
R&D organization is similar to an accountant while a standards body is
similar to an auditor, and we've all seen what happens when people get
to audit themselves.
All the best,
David
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David Megginson, david@megginson.com, http://www.megginson.com/
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