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RE: Recognizing the contribution of the developers of XML

From: "Len Bullard" <cbullard@------.--->
To: "'peter murray-rust'" <pm286@---.--.-->, <xml-dev@-----.---.--->
Date: 8/24/2006 1:16:00 PM
Kumbah yah.  Group hug.  If a dial tone was a slow yawn, it would be just as
ignorable and replaceable.

Just as we once replaced a better technology with a worse one (Worse Is
Better.  Ask around.  Everyone says so.), XML has warts that will make it
expendable.  Otherwise, RELAX, X3D, etc., would not have alternative
syntaxes and CSS would use XML syntax.  It's just stuff.  Like URIs, it is
the agreement to use it that makes the good stuff happen.  When the time
comes that there is a big enough consensus to replace XML, do it with a bit
of decency and respect and then when the time comes to replace that, you
have half a chance of doing it right.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

len


From: peter murray-rust [mailto:pm286@c...] 

Many members of this list may not appreciate the enormous communal 
effort made by the XML community in 1997++. The 10 goals of XML were 
critical ...


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