> Mitch Amiano wrote:
[...]
>> If EXSLT could be brought together through individual
>> effort, surely a few editor vendors can agree on one PI.
>
> Why can't we all just get along? Because we're competitors.
>
> Maybe in some countries a few editor vendors can sit around a table and
> agree on a common feature list, but not the US or any other country with
> similar anti-trust regulations. Monkey-see, monkey-do is perfectly ok,
> but not collusion. That's why we have standards bodies. ;-}
This might be a good time for me to join the conversation as a
representative of the community of Humble Users. (My interest in Relax
NG comes via involvement with TEI, but I am not a software developer.)
>From our point of view, we like standards or conventions that work
without our having to give them more thought and effort than necessary.
During 20 years as a computer user I have learned how to do lots of
arcane and complicated things (redefining nroff/troff macro packages,
for example), so maybe it will carry some weight if I say that I have
rarely found anything more confusing than getting SGML/XML catalogs to
work properly on the various computer systems I use. My principal XML
editor uses a processing instruction to associate a Relax NG schema with
a document, a simple and convenient solution from my point of view.
I'd be even happier if I could expect the same PI to be understandable
by other command-line parsers and editors I use, so I wouldn't have to
enter schema parameters every time I use them. Or if I could place a
Relax NG schema at a Web location and then be able to share an XML
document that references it without requiring the recipient to edit the
file in order for it to validate.
DS
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