"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >>> No, it's a recommendation, an advise, nothing else. Otherwise they >>> would call it a standard. Why do you think W3C calls it >>> recommendations? Because it are no standards. There is an ISO HTML >>> standard though, but when people babble about HTML standards they >>> talk about W3C *recommendations*. >> >> In that sense there are no standards in software. The ISO C++ >> "standard" and the XML "recommendation" have the same amount of force >> behind them. > > Yup, but ISO C++ is a standard, and XML is a recommendation.
And the practical difference between the two is.... That's right, nil. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
