Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> What makes you think the community would have have changed anything by
> spending more time to try to influence the spec?
It's possible a few of the minor inconsistencies, unclear wording, and
outright mistakes could have been fixed had someone noticed them and
spoken up at the right time. However the major issues of design and
whether this was the right approach to a schema language really was
never on the table.
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