Subject: RE: Background on DSSSL From: "Mason, James David (MXM) " <MXM@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:35:24 -0400 |
Nothing earthshaking, in general nothing that would even be particularly intelligible to anyone who wasn't involved in the standards committee at the time. There were some errors of chronology and details about who contributed what to the standard. The most significant issue is that DSSSL could have become a standard several years earlier than it did. However, slowing down the development made it possible to increase our understanding of how SGML processing works and establish a common approach that is shared by DSSSL, HyTime (second edition), and SGML (with the tecnical corrigenda). On the one hand, slowing down the process increased the general level of frustration with ISO and led to some projects' landing in the W3C (e.g., XML, XSL). On the other hand, all of the current work, whether in ISO or W3C, hav benefitted from the things that were learned in the process. Nothing is ever easy when it comes to document processing (or standards development related to it). Jim Mason SC34 Chairman > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastian Rahtz > [SMTP:sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 3:53 PM > To: dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: sca@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Background on DSSSL > > Sharon Adler writes: > > > > You have several errors in your background discussion of DSSSL both > just on > > DSSSL itself and on the relation and timing of the work with HyTime. > > > > Thanks. > > > I wonder what Sharon is "thanking" Ralph for? > > Is Sharon going to leave us all on tenterhooks or reveal what the > errors are? > > All agog > > Sebastian > > > DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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