Re: [xml-dev] When writing standards...

["C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>]

Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:

> @dw
> http://this.how/standards/
>
> Sounds very sensible.

Much of it sounds sensible to me.  But for data I care about, formats
are far more important than software.  I not infrequently work with
texts written 100 or 1000 years ago, and I am not aware of any piece of
software that has survived that long.  And when software disappears, it
tends to take data encoded in software-specific formats with it.

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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Black Mesa Technologies LLC
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