Subj : XML
To   : Scott Little
From : Jan Vermeulen
Date : Tue Dec 24 2002 09:27 pm

    Quoting Scott Little on Wed 25 Dec 2002  4:49 to Jan Vermeulen:

 sl> ... because SLF is vague, with many conflicting 'standards' and
 sl> broken implementations.

    You seem to have a complete view of (1) what is vague in SLF, (2) what 
standards are conflicting between them and how they conflict and (3) which 
implementations of what are broken.

    I must confess that bt now I'm off the track. Would it be possible for you 
to make us a resume?

 sl> Fixing them is obviously a good idea,...

    Obviously...

 sl> ... but David Drummond, etc. have been harping on about broken entries
 sl> for months and nothing significant has happened.

    So things have indeed happend but they are considered insignicant.

    Would you, or David, a list of them?

 sl> And then there are issues that cannot be fixed without breaking software.

    Tel me which, how and where, please.

 sl> It's far easier to start with a clean format, and convert the data
 sl> to the broken format, than start with a broken format and try clean
 sl> it up automagically.

    Its easier, but we do not like leaving a lot of debris, so let's look at 
the difficult way, won't we?

    It's already Christmas where you live. May it a merry one.

    -=<[ JV ]>=-

 
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