Re: precious little press

[Robin Cover <robin@isogen.com>]

I will be glad to post a 'news' item to the XML Cover Pages news section
-- especially if someone wants to help identify the points which at this
time make a news story, and fill in the details.

I won't do it just to "provide a foil" to anything else -- though I
know of some web sites that thrive on controversy, real or
concocted, as a means of improving their ratings.  I think a "status" memo
on TREX with 2-5 sentences on each of the four points sketched below [1]
would make a great article, and I'll be happy to post it to
my web site.  Maybe there could be an official verdict on the
pronunciation of 'TREX' as well  :-)  Please let me know if there's
interest along these lines; otherwise, I'll be happy to reference what is
posted to XML-DEV.

Robin Cover

[1]  viz., 

* details on the TREX/RELAX unification
* the relationship of the unified TREX/RELAX XML schema
  language to the W3C XML schema offering 
* plans for making the unified TREX/RELAX XML schema
  language an international standard
* existing and planned tools/implementations

------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michael Smith wrote:

> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> 
> > / Michael Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net> was heard to say:
> > | I must say I am surprised that the unification of Relax and Trex has not
> > | gotten much press, not even on XMLHack. I can't come up with another XML
> > | initiative that is more important in the /schema/ of things, especially as a
> > | foil or alternative to XML Schema. Are editors getting late-night,
> > | anonymous, threatening phone calls to quash the news? %^} Or perhaps we need
> > | to do a bit more arm waving.
> > 
> > I've been slightly surprised too. I think perhaps the official choice
> > of a new name might be an appropriate occasion on which the editors
> > could send another announcement to xml-dev.
> 
> If we do xml-dev announcement, maybe it'd also help to include some
> specific language like:
> 
>   If you're an author or editor currently working on an XML-related book
>   or article, especially if it includes discussion XML schema languages,
>   contact the TREX technical committee <trex-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
>   for up-to-date information and clarification of
> 
>     * details on the TREX/RELAX unification
>   
>     * the relationship of the unified TREX/RELAX XML schema language
>       to the W3C XML schema offering
> 
>     * plans for making the unified TREX/RELAX XML schema language an
>       international standard
> 
>     * existing and planned tools/implementations
> 
> And I guess we ought to be pestering anybody we know personally who's
> got an XML-related book in the works to try to include a reference to
> TREX/RELAX (RELAX NG, if that's what's been decided)-- if it's
> appropriate for the particular book, of course.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>