My mistake. I remember having a long debate with
Dan C. about it being normative.
I would prefer it were. In the long run, I think
it advantageous to keep these two works symmetrical.
I understand that is a work problem. Even the normative
references to URIs and Unicode have problems.
len
From: John Cowan [mailto:]
Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:
> Umm... isn't that pretty much what the SGML ERB did?
> Many could propose but only the self-selected group
> could dispose and decide. ISO had the copyrights for
> ISO 8879, but XML was created as a subset and the
> normative reference maintained.
Umm, what normative reference? XML 1.0 has an *informative*
reference to ISO 8879. The normative references are about URIs,
language tags, and Unicode.
