Re: [xml-dev] standards

> A standard is where some interested parties agree on the details
> of a technology. Conformance is whether they actually do implement
> those details.

I'd phrase it as
	Conformance is when they (sometimes provably) claim to implement a set 
of those details.

channeling for Len...
	/r$

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