Re: [xml-dev] catch (was Re: [xml-dev] RDDL and WSDL)

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Re: [xml-dev] catch (was Re: [xml-dev] RDDL and WSDL)
Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> 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.

-- 
John Cowan       http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        <>
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)