[SCL] some explanation

[John F. Sowa]

Steve,

That is the fundamental point:

SW> Or to be more general:  don't let a specific
 > serialization format influence the abstract syntax
 > (as can happen with XML-based stds).

As various people have noted, an anti-XML backlash
is growing strong enough that even the W3C fanatics
are beginning to feel the pressure.

We should *not* allow anybody's pet notation to
pervert the semantics.  For political reasons, we
can emphasize one or another concrete syntax in
different documents, but the core must be clean.

John