Subject: The term "grove" as an acronym From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:16:22 -0400 |
At 99/06/23 08:15 -0500, Daniel Mahler wrote: >Groves, is not quite an acronym of "Graphs of Propertied Values". I was very lucky to be present at the ISO meeting in Dublin when groves where introduced (I'm the Canadian chair of CAC/ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, then SC 18/WG 8). The English term "grove" as a "grouping of trees", proposed by those intimate with the DSSSL development process, seemed to be an excellent catchy name. In one of the (frequent and enjoyable) bouts of levity during the ISO meeting (that itself may be difficult to believe, but the personalities working in the area of markup standardization are quite wonderful and respectful of each other's capabilities and contributions, all under the sage guidance of James Mason), someone (I think it was Eliot) retrofit the phrase "Graphic Representation of Object Value Equivalences" to much hilarity. A fond memory ..... ........... Ken p.s. - tomorrow, at a lunch that has been arranged for over a month, I will be lobbying a new member of my committee to take up the cause of the maintenance of DSSSL at the ISO level ... we'll see what happens -- G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/d/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (Fax:-0995) Website: XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML services, training, libraries, products. Publications: Introduction to XSLT (3rd Edition) ISBN 1-894049-00-4 DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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