RE: [xml-dev] Competing Specifications - A Good or Bad Thing?

["Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@STJUDE.ORG>]

Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com> writes:

> 
> +1
> 
> except competing specifications are fine.  for new 
> technology. competing standards are bad.  they codify 
> practice as you say.

If true, then a single spec. would be even worse; people would be even
more likely to assume it is the only way to do things...