At 2002-12-06 15:51 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
Having said that, you are trying to change the direction of a tanker
when at least half the crew who are steering it are firmly convinced it
is going in the right direction, and is within sight of land;
I acknowledge that tanker steering is started early and is difficult to
change ... concerns on these issues have been expressed for a long time
already.
so even if
you get people to hear you, you have a challenge ahead to convince them.
And they aren't morons, either.
I sincerely apologize if anything I wrote left the impression I believe
they are ... I didn't say what they were doing was technically
self-inconsistent or poorly designed for what they wanted to do ... I said
that what they were doing were disenfranchising the document community who
needs more than XPath 1.0 and less than a PSVI.
It would seem to me the design was hijacked by those without document
concerns but with programming concerns, and the technical solution being
proposed far exceeds the needs of a *big* constituency of document
users. And I thought this was expressed *long* ago in time to change the
direction of the tanker.
I have a lot of respect for the technical ability of you and your WG
colleagues and all the effort you are putting in to this when others of us
are unable, and would hate to be seen as feeling otherwise.
................... Ken
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