Alternatives to the W3C

Tim Bray tbray at textuality.com
Mon Jan 17 19:38:58 GMT 2000


At 11:23 AM 1/17/00 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
>> foul! FO  spec is unfinished.
>
>Actually, perhaps that means it's right on the mark.  It's
>better to have code (such as FOP? ;-) implementing drafts,
>and turning up bugs therein, than to wait till any sort of
>"Candidate REC" stage to start such work.

And I'm happy to report that there is an implementation in place,
and being madly extended as we write, in the Apache project (see
http://xml.apache.org).   Any others? -Tim


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