"Clean Specs"

[Murray Maloney]

At 01:44 AM 2/8/99 -0500, Tim Bray wrote:
>Uh, just for the record, Namespaces, like any other W3C recommendation,
>has been through a *long* formal process with many public drafts, and a 
>final poll of the membership.  

For the record, "Namespaces in XML" did not follow a process
like any other W3C recommendation. It is disingenuous to 
suggest that it did. In fact, this spec was not even subject 
to the scrutiny of a W3C Working Group from August, 1998.

[...]
>
>Well, the Mozilla, perl, Internet Explorer, Oracle, and IBM XML offerings
>already include namespace support.  The majority is awfully silent I
>guess. 

And where is all of the content? Hmmm! They do seem to be silent.

Regards,

Murray



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