RE: [xml-dev] SGML complexity

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• To: "'Elliotte Harold'" <elharo@...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@...>
• Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:43:40 +0100

> I'm also 
> not sure if it's a truly parallelizable task. Certainly some 
> pieces like many functions could be written by many different 
> developers, but the core might well need a single person, or 
> a small cohesive team working together.

One interesting aspect of the project is that to develop a 2.0 processor
from a 1.0 processor, the core needs significant refactoring. I suspect that
the larger your team, the harder it is to achieve that.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/