On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, CRAWFORD, Mark wrote:
>>We are under no obligation to use a particular feature of XSD,
>>only to use XSD. We have made many decisions regarding the
>>appropriateness of using certain features - that is what NDR is
>>all about.
Many of those decisions were also reviewed, re-decided,
deprecated and expanded. I'm not sure sometimes certain
decisions made are the most corret, but we go along anyway.
But some are just plain irky -- that's what the debate is all about.
Why <documentation> then?
>>Exactly. And we, as NDR determined that the right thing
>>was to avoid the use of AppInfo to ensure broadest market
>>appeal. I have a business case that says that we will
>>loose part of our audience if we include normative AppInfo
>>in our schema.
I'm sure it has been appropriately assessed then that
that single business case represents more than 80% of
the world's estimated market for business....
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Chin Chee-Kai
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