DSSSL spec' on line? (Was: DOCBOOK: Glossary database

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at pasteur dot fr>]

On Tuesday 1 February 2000, at 17 h 33, the keyboard of Norman Walsh 
<ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> | > The spec is online at ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/
> | 
> | Hum, this is empty or I have to change my lenses ;)
> 
> Uh, when did that happen? Anyone know the story here?

It has never been official, it was a coup by some people to circumvent the 
fascist ISO rules regarding the diffusion of the specification, using a clever 
lawyer hack. Like every hack, it may last or not.

This morning, everything works, apparently.

README:

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James David Mason
Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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