[sc34wg3] Almost arbitrary markup in resourceData

[Murray Altheim]

Mason, James David (MXM) wrote:
>  I second Eric. His needs are very similar to mine, and he's made a better
> case than I could yesterday night .

So the big question is, where's the 80/20 point on this? Are you two
representative of a greater need, are you the 80 or the 20? My desire
is to know if not going the arbitrary XML way, but going the one-more-
markup language route with XHTML+XTM would satisfy the 80/20, or if
I'm wasting my time arguing, myself the 20.

I have no doubt there are very real use cases for arbitrary markup,
but I'm still completely unconvinced that any of this is anything
but deadly for interchange. And IMO, ISO's task is not to satisfy
a whole bunch of use cases, where each case uses different markup,
but to create one standard for interchange. Arbitrary is not standard.

Murray

...........................................................................
Murray Altheim                         http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK                    .

   Entitled Continuing Collateral Damage: the health and environmental
   costs of war on Iraq, the report estimates that between 22,000 and
   55,000 people - mainly Iraqi soldiers and civilians - died as a direct
   result of the war.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3259489.stm

   Entitled Continuing Collateral Damage? ...a euphemism for BushCo.