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Subject: Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada
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"Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote in message 
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>
> So, I could see very little advantage to making any contributions to
> XML/Ada, since it would create two XML/Adas (mine and AdaCore's). Would 
> that
> be an advantage to the Ada community?
>

Ok..Forks are bad...but is it really "better" to create a separate XML/Ada 
thing that just starts over rather than
forking all together? I suppose that is true if you have fundemental 
problems with the existing approach....

But I guess I don't see the downside to a public fork v.s. a public re-write 
of the whole thing from scratch.


My guess is ACT is just afraid to deal too closely with you because once you 
finish your OS and new Ada compiler you will be a major competitor to them.