Andrew, I don't think you are as independent as I am in drawing conclusions about MS's manipulation of W3C.
You seem linked to MS.. "Andrew Watt is an independent consultant and computer book author with an interest and expertise in various XML technologies. Currently, he is focusing on the use of XML in Microsoft technologies. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft InfoPath 2003." I'm very impressed by your work, but believe your tent is in their backyard. Francis --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 18/12/2005 02:48:37 GMT Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > <FH> It seems there is a fox in hen house. Does it take a rocket > scientist to see the MS has taken XML, fiddled with it to make it > better (XAML THE CAMEL), and of course, has no incentive to then > further support XML at W3C. Should we applaud their finesse? > > > Francis, > > No fox. No henhouse. And no rocket scientist needed. > > XML is a metalanguage. It is **intended** to allow other parties to create > other XML-based languages on that metalanguage. > > SVG is one language built on the XML metalanguage. XSD Schema (aka W3C XML > Schema) is another. Both are from W3C. > > XAML is another. It happens to be from Microsoft. To the best of my > knowledge XAML follows the rules of XML. [If anyone does know of any departure from > XML well-formedness rules in XAML I would be interested to know.] > > Dozens, maybe hundreds, of other organisations have done the same thing. > > Andrew Watt > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
