YARAM!http://norman.walsh.name/2004/06/25/yaram 7 107 2004-06-25T08:39:00-04:00 $Date$ Norman Walsh 2004 Norman Walsh Overheard at a Working Group Meeting. The XSL and XML Query Working Groups met for another four days this week. Submitted again for your amusement, without attribution:
On Progress
We're going to second last call and we still don't know how namespace nodes are represented in the data model?
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Don't polish the pig, push it out the door.
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If we refuse to make any decisions on the basis that we might reconsider them in the future, I think our progress will be limited.
On Namespaces
What we need are anti-namespace nodes.
On Personalities
It's one thing to have the schema working group against you, it's another thing to have X against you.
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You interrupted yourself…
On Parsing
X: “When you run that through the deserializer…” Y: “You mean the parser?”
On Optimism
Any reasonable implementation will…
On Sanity
X: “Am I completely out of my head?” Y: “No, you're not. [It’s] another reification of an abstract model” X: “Y.A.R.A.M.” Y: “Woohoo! I told you so.”