Subject: Re: XSL with scripting From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:51:00 -0600 |
"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > Which, of course, raises the question of why people who are locked out of > the discussions should be inclined to have much faith in the decisions > arrived at in those discussions. Users ceded control of their standards from organizations they could control -- such as the IETF and ISO -- to organizations that they could not -- such as the W3C. Users confer legitimacy just on standards organizations just as they do on governments. Presumably, they trust these organizations. Luckily, a determined and interested group of users can make their own standards: we've already seen that with SGML (ISO) and WebDAV (IETF) and even XML-DEV (SAX). The only problem is that more advanced standards are incredibly expensive to create. Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Are the social and economic benefits of capital punishment sufficient to outweigh the injustice of accidentally executing innocents?" "What benefits???" XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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