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>(Is it really still acceptable to use "dumb" to mean stupid? I'm not a
great
>fan of political correctness, but I do find it offensive to equate speech
>difficulties with stupidity.)

Me neither but in common usage the word dumb is becoming effectively
synonymous with stupid and its root in disability is fading away.  When did
you last hear the phrase 'deaf and dumb'?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 October 2004 16:00
To: 'Michael Kay'; xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 *and* XSLT 1.0 validation -- how to?


> 
> > Excuse me if this is a dumb or already discussed question.

It's already discussed but not dumb.

(Is it really still acceptable to use "dumb" to mean stupid? I'm not a great
fan of political correctness, but I do find it offensive to equate speech
difficulties with stupidity.)

I take the liberty of copying the following from an xmlschema-dev posting
today by Noah Mendelsohn:

<quote>
Perhaps there is still a bit of confusion.  HTML is only an example.  Many 
users of XML have vocabularies that would look unnatural or inconvenient 
if they sprouted explicit version control on individual instance elements 
after the initial release.  Whatever we do needs to anticipate the needs 
of such users, not just those who author HTML.

You might be interested in an analysis that I did for the schema WG and 
later posted in a publicly accessible archive [1].  This analysis is not 
consensus of the Schema WG;  there are other members of the WG who have 
somewhat different view of these issues and who especially would differ 
with some of the mechanisms discussed in the second part of the note.  You 
may also want to keep an eye on the work that David Orchard and Norm Walsh 
have been doing toward a TAG finding [2] on XML Versioning (draft at 
[3]--I wouldn't be surprised to see new drafts soon). 

At the very least, I hope that you will get a feeling that we are all 
trying hard to understand the requirements and use cases, and that taken 
together those use cases embody a broader range of concerns and 
constraints than many casual observers might notice.  Whether we can in 
fact do something useful in this space, either by providing explicit 
mechanisms or best-practices advice remains to be seen.  Versioning is 
known to be a very, very hard problem.

Noah

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2004Aug/0010.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings
[3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/versioning-20031003

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Noah Mendelsohn 
IBM Corporation
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1-617-693-4036
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Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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