Fwd: RE: [xml-dev] What do want in a FAQ for a new spec

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

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>I'll second what Joe said, and elaborate on it: the consortium responsible
>is one thing and which vendors and groups are pushing it are something else.
>If the committee that created the spec has a bunch of companies I never
>heard of, or if big companies I have heard of have each packed the
>membership with multiple members, that's a big difference.
>
>Related issue: did the committee come up with the spec from scratch or did
>they tweak something submitted by someone else, and if so, by who.
>
>Competing vs. complementary specs: someone wondering whether to pay
>attention to a particular spec can easily be confused by its relationships
>to related specs. Sometimes specs that seem to address the same issue are
>actually addressing a different layer of the issue, sometimes they're
>directly competing. DRM and B2B standards are both good examples.
>
>Where are samples: I'm continually amazed at the amount of XML-based specs
>for which examples of valid XML are difficult or impossible to find. If you
>have a schema for the data specified by the spec, make it easy to find data
>that conforms to the schema and demonstrates *every* element and attribute
>in the schema. This helps to justify the presence of each element and
>attribute, which is part of a spec's job.
>
>Bob DuCharme          www.snee.com/bob           <bob@ 
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