X pointer would benefit from offering the option of developed modest feature set, many vendors involved in developing X pointer. Though many tried nobody has set the goal of speed implementation the single complete implementation of x pointer took about two weeks and four known external implementations of FIXptr proposal each took about half a day compared to the process of x pointer implementations getting four implementations to try the proposal on a casual basis was so easy and with this no users of x pointer would lose anything, many
The XML dev mailing list has been discussing the licensing terms for the patent Since Elliote Rusty Harold made a recommendation of the rejection of the specification. Danielle Veillard, the chair of Xpointer meetings, mentioned that it would be fruitless to chase them all since no progress would be made. However he was sympathetic to the patent itself.An analysis of the situation was made by Tim Bray. He described it as a big problem and made a suggestion that it would be more responsible for the sun to make a declaration that the patent had
Debates on the XML-DEV and XSL mailing lists over the last two weeks concern the futures of XSLT, XPath, and, the latest addition to the W3C XML toolkit, XML Query. There are no signs of these debates ending this week. Discussion on XML-DEV about the design of XML Query rages on.
Reinventing the Wheel
The focus of last week's XML-Deviant was the concern expressed by several XML-DEV contributors that the interdependence of several W3C specifications may have exceeded the dictates of software reuse and become instead a tangled mess. Suggestions were
Since Elliotte Rusty Harold recommended "complete rejection of this specification until such time as Sun's patent can be dealt with more reasonably," the XML-dev mailing list has been discussing the licensing terms for the patent.
Daniel Veillard, who chaired XPointer meetings on the subject, noted that "We can't chase them all and if we did we would make no progress every effort would be wasted doing those Patent lookups and fighting them :-(((," though he clearly had little sympathy for the patent itself.
Tim Bray described the situation as "a