Re: [xml-dev] Getting specs/standards right (was UPA and schema handling)

Jonathan Robie wrote:
> A W3C standard can't become a Recommendation without implementations. 
> It's useful to have tests that show what has been correctly implemented, 
> so that we can demonstrate that there really are implementations.

Yes. It would also be useful if those tests were used to develop 
W3C-sanctioned test marks, so the marketplace would have some way to 
tell, except by painful experience, which products actually implement 
the recommendations.

Bob Foster