[SCL] What we need to do NOW.

[Murray Altheim]

pat hayes wrote:
> Please let us focus on things that really do need to be finalized but 
> have received almost no attention in our discussions, rather than 
> re-visit old debates about points we have in fact settled.
[...]
> 3. We need a concrete XML syntax (as vanilla as possible). This may be 
> straightforward, but if anyone has any strong feelings about appropriate 
> XML 'style' then please express them, or preferably design an XML syntax 
> according to your preferred style.

Pat,

There's no such thing as a "vanilla" XML syntax. You have to make
commitments and design decisions at the very beginning, and to do so
you need a set of requirements. This doesn't have to be some big,
extensive document. But nobody can write an XML syntax without
knowing what problems/tasks/requirements you're trying to accomplish.
I don't put this down to a question of "style" at all.

I'm not interested in debates, old issues, etc. either, but absent a
set of design goals, any XML syntax will simply be a best guess, in
the dark.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

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