Re: [xml-dev] Minimal XML Specification

Elliotte Harold wrote:

> 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?
>
What makes you think they couldn't have? 

> 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.
>
And people at the time knew this how? 

Cheers
Rick