[exprla-devel] \W3C issues

[reid_spencer <ras...@re...>]

--- In xpl-dev@y..., "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> wrote:
>In the final analysis, it will end up becoming the XPL complete 
reference.
>Then, and only then, will it be submitted as a Note to the W3C for 
their
>review.  I am not saying this is something that will be submitted to 
the W3C
>before it's finalized.  By then we should know whether or not we are 
going
>to the W3C.  If we do, we will have the Note, requirements, and 
reference
>completed as a side-effect to our work.  Basically, this framework 
will be
>documenting XPL, as we go.

This sounds like the usual way to go.  In a lot of cases, submission 
as a
Note is the end of the line for a spec.  While the Note can get you a 
few
dollops of publicity (provided you can find a W3C member to submit it 
and
the W3C is willing to accept it), I'd suggest developing it without 
too
much concern for the submission process and focusing on the project 
rather
than the W3C.

(Keep track of referenced material, though!  I suspect this project 
will
have a lot of that.)

I've got a FAQ that's an "Outsider's Guide to the W3C", if anyone's
interested:
http://www.simonstl.com/articles/civilw3c.htm

Hopefully I'll have something more substantive to contribute over 
time, but
since I'm not a programming language designer (or even that much of a
programmer), I'm not entirely sure how substantive it will prove to 
be.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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