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- From: Randy Bryan <rbryan@CapAccess.org>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1972 20:09:49 -0500 (EST)
Please Please Please!!!
Take my email address off of your list completely!!!
Why did you start sending these to me again!?????
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, xml-dev-digest wrote:
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> Date: 26 Apr 2000 14:56:19 -0400
> From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com> writes:
>
> > Take your favorite antacid and check out
> > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2551691,00.html
> >
> > The essence of the article is that vertical industry B2B efforts are
> > flourishing but the "pure XML" efforts such as OASIS are not:
> >
> > "The losers are pie-in-the-sky XML-indoctrinated organizations, such
> > as the Microsoft-spearheaded BizTalk.org and OASIS. The automakers
> > chose to bypass BizTalk and OASIS to develop proprietary (but
> > published) schemata. Every big organization will do the same, and
> > though some of their XML work may feed back up to OASIS or BizTalk,
> > every one wants standards for their cliques only."
>
> I looked at the article, and it sounds about right (except for the
> headline and the conclusion) -- I never bet much on the success of
> schema repositories anyway.
>
> In a sense, this is our own marketing hype coming back to haunt us.
> Two years ago, everyone was pushing XML like a tower of Babel that
> magically make all data formats compatible. That sounded a lot better
> than the truth -- that XML is a simple, common layer for representing
> tree structures in a character stream -- but we certainly deserve our
> share of headlines like this now.
>
> Conclusion: XML is succeeding, but not by the criteria that many in
> the XML community originally set.
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
> David
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:29:40 -0400
> From: Steve DeRose <Steven_DeRose@brown.edu>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> At 1:17 PM -0400 4/26/00, Michael Champion wrote:
> >Take your favorite antacid and check out
> >http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2551691,00.html
> >
> >The essence of the article is that vertical industry B2B efforts are
> >flourishing but the "pure XML" efforts such as OASIS are not:
> >
> >"The losers are pie-in-the-sky XML-indoctrinated organizations, such as the
> >Microsoft-spearheaded BizTalk.org and OASIS. The automakers chose to bypass
> >BizTalk and OASIS to develop proprietary (but published) schemata. Every big
> >organization will do the same, and though some of their XML work may feed
> >back up to OASIS or BizTalk, every one wants standards for their cliques
> >only."
> >
> >I tried to draft a response but couldn't figure out where to begin, given
> >the swamp of misconceptions the author seems to build upon. Is this worth a
> >response, perhaps by a prominent person in the XML community, to distinguish
> >the undeniable success of XML from the possible failings of ebXML or
> >BizTalk? For that matter, I'm not at all sure the author understands what
> >OASIS or Microsoft are trying to accomplish, so even their "failure" to
> >solve the world's problems may not be quite so stark as the author suggests.
>
> I agree they have some naive ideas in the article; but overall, it looks
> like old news to me. I'm glad the press has now figured out what many XML
> people have been saying for a long time: XML gets rid of totally pointless
> incompatibility over how to punctuate your data structures when you pass
> them around, but it doesn't solve the problem of disagreeing over the real
> data structurest that ought to be passed. That's just what was intended.
>
> Expecting XML to solve that would be like expecting linguistic grammar to
> solve political conflicts. Without a basic (if perhaps imperfect) agreement
> on grammar and vocabulary, all bets are off. But once you can actually talk
> to each other, you can *start* actually working on whatever the real
> differences are. Common language is necessary, but not sufficient.
>
> Now in natural language it's best if negotiators speak some common
> language, but we have workarounds: highly skilled translators can
> substitute; and no culture makes their language intentionally opaque, or
> holds it under non-disclosure (well, maybe the Auca). Even so, translators
> simply do not exist for many combinations of the world's 5000 or so
> languages (300 or so if you only count ones with armies). So, for example,
> the UN uses only a few "main" languages; even a mere 300 languages would
> lead to 900 potential translations -- and there are many more B2B,
> e-commerce, and other corporate content things than a mere 300 or 5000.
>
> Such linguistic workarounds are infeasible in computing, so we need a
> common language even more: for which XML is working quite well. XML saves
> writing a parser for every app; it saves worrying about what to do with
> CR/LF, or what the 3rd bit over in the 'charformat' mask byte is; it saves
> worrying whether *this* RDB's comma-delimited export form escapes "," with
> backslash or by quoting -- all that mindless, useless junk that has nothing
> to do with your information, but causes a continuous drip of wasted
> programmer-years.
>
> But XML does *not* solve the problem of semantic heterogeneity (a topic
> discussed in reams of database articles). XML never meant to; nor does it
> seem a feasible task. From my perspective, one of the best things I
> expected from XML was simply that it would make the *real* semantic
> problems visible: it is no longer so easy to miss the substantive
> differences behind a veil of syntactic obfuscation. By making the problems
> visible, at least we can deal with them consciously and directly.
>
> Well, now we're there. XML lets us all see, in plain text and schemas, just
> what the differences between two competing systems were to begin with; and
> companies that want to interchange, convert, or compromise can do so
> explicitly and clearly. The process also helps directly: as companies and
> whole industries move to XML, they get a perfect chance to review and
> perhaps fix schema problems that have been there a long time.
>
> Companies that are arch-rivals may avoid compromise, or even introduce
> different schemas just to create incompatibility; I don't think there's
> anything we can do about that. But there's a Darwinian process going on
> here, and being gratuitously different can lead to extinction. Working
> together is more efficient than working alone, and economies of scale favor
> standards in the long run.
>
> At the same time, perhaps we will find that some of the mavericks have seen
> something everybody else missed, and we'll all be tweaking our schemas to
> add it.
>
> Let the weeds grow along with the wheat; if we try to root them out now,
> we'll doubtless kill some of the good stuff too. They'll be weeded out in
> time.
>
> Just saw Tim's posting while writing this one. I second his points too.
>
> Steven_DeRose@Brown.edu; http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
> Chief Scientist, Scholarly Technology Group, and
> Adjunct Associate Professor, Brown University
> North American Editor, the Text Encoding Initiative
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:22:13 -0400
> From: James Tauber <JTauber@bowstreet.com>
> Subject: RE: PC Week announces death of XML
>
> One of the problems I have with it is that it makes the mistake (as similar
> articles do) of confusing XML with a particular vocabulary and seems to
> suggest that if a particular XML vocabulary fails, then XML has therefore
> failed.
>
> James
>
> > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2551691,00.html
> >
> > The analysis is kind of dumb, but some of the reportage is
> > worth reading. -T.
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:41:53 -0400
> From: "Karl Best" <kfbest@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> This is very similar to a number of other articles I've seen over the past
> year from ZDNet and other publications that are critical of and predicting
> the demise of XML because there are too many versions of it. The author(s)
> of these articles (I haven't noticed if these have all been written by the
> same guy) has not yet learned the distinction between a language and a
> metalanguage, and assumes that since there are multiple "versions" of XML
> (actually different applications) that there's something wrong there.
>
> As far as the auto industry example, Taschek sees the manufacturers setting
> up a B2B exchange not under the auspices of OASIS and thinks that's a bad
> thing. It would be a bad thing if it *were* under the auspices of the
> consortium. They are doing what they're supposed to: building an e-commerce
> infrastructure based on XML standards. GM, Ford and Daimler-Chrysler built a
> shopping mall using standard architectural specifications. Volkswagon built
> another shopping mall down the street. Fine. OASIS didn't build the shopping
> mall, but that's not OASIS' business.
>
> He just doesn't get it.
>
> </karl>
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> OASIS
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:40:38 -0700
> From: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
> Subject: SOAP v1.1
>
> IBM and Lotus joined in co-authorship of SOAP, and the 1.1 spec is out.
>
> http://static.userland.com/xmlRpcCom/soap/SOAPv11.htm
>
> Dave
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:48:16 -0700
> From: Bob DeRemer <Bob.Deremer@wonderware.com>
> Subject: Biztalk Framework 1.0 & C++ [as opposed to VB]
>
> We're using the biztalk framework 1.0 specs and have implemented a solution
> on NT 4.0 using MSMQ. While the whole approach and design looks good and
> should migrate to Biztalk Server 2000, I'm trying to determine if anyone has
> generated C++ Plug-ins and Application Adaptors [as opposed to the VB
> Add-ins]. It looks like I can generate my own based on the documentation in
> the Jumpstart Kit, but I wanted to verify [with someone who may have already
> done this] the procedure and if there are any caveats to doing this.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Bob
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> Date: 26 Apr 2000 17:30:47 -0400
> From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
> Subject: List server: "fixed"
>
> As of a few minutes ago, and apparently running without error,
> all of the lists served by OASIS have been reconfigured. Each is
> now archived, digested, and running bulk_mailer to improve
> throughput. The caching DNS server is running and slowly
> rebuilding its cache since my recent reboot.
>
> All of the list files have been moved off the root partition so
> it shouldn't fill up.
>
> I didn't get the configuration perfect on the first attempt this
> afternoon, so there may have been a few odd bounces. But all that
> should be behind us now.
>
> BTW, OASIS appears to have the entire archive for xml-dev
> online. (Not on the web, but available with the 'get' and
> 'index' commands, although I haven't tested that yet...)
>
> If anything still seems broken, please let me know.
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:42:00 -1000 (HST)
> From: "Betty L. Harvey" <harvey@eccnet.eccnet.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> On 26 Apr 2000, David Megginson wrote:
>
> > "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com> writes:
> >
> > > Take your favorite antacid and check out
> > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2551691,00.html
> > >
> > I looked at the article, and it sounds about right (except for the
> > headline and the conclusion) -- I never bet much on the success of
> > schema repositories anyway.
> >
>
> I would would also point out that 'schema repositories' the way
> BizTalk.Org and Oasis.org have implemented them are confusing and possibly
> dangerous. Both OASIS and BizTalk suck-in any DTD or schema which are
> provided to them. I was at a meeting recently where an 'unnamed' company
> stated that their DTD was the 'e-commerce catalog standard DTD' because it
> was 'approved' by OASIS.
>
> The DTD didn't meet general catalog requirements and it didn't parse -- of
> course, very few DTD's actually parse coming out of e-commerce
> initiatives.
>
> I think providing a 'standard repository' requires a certain level of
> technical scrutiny and responsibility.
>
> Betty
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:13:29 +0100
> From: "Steven Livingstone" <s.livingstone@btinternet.com>
> Subject: RE: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> In the world of XML, we can map between different schema's for an particular
> industry anyway.
>
> Anyway, sure there are a couple of examples of large companies creating
> their own schema's, but as these are published, the best will rise to the
> top and be used by the many large, medium and small business across the
> world.
>
> I am involved in a project which will be promoting schema re-use to 240,000
> businesses and if a schema exists, we will re-use it - eg. HR shemas, order
> exchange, advertising schemas, news and article shema's to name but a few.
> We wouldn't consider any other method !!
>
> I don't think we could (or ever expected) everyone to agree on one schema
> for any industry, but there *will* emerge a limited number of re-usable
> standard schemas and hence a limited number of mappings between them.
>
> If it end's up GM, Ford, DC and then Volkswagen devlop to different schemas
> re-used throughout the automobile industry, where is the problem??
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
> Author
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:08:04 -0700
> From: Eldar Musayev <eldarm@microsoft.com>
> Subject: Multiplication of standards (was: RE: PC Week on "Why XML is Fail ing" ?????)
>
> Number of XML applications, of course, is not a problem,
> even without Biztalk/OASIS, that's what XSLT is for.
> However when we talk about other kinds of standards
> like XLink, XPath, XSchema, X...,
> sprouting out as mushrooms after the rain, it may be
> very well a problem. Looks like we got a new paradygm
> of programming in XML and now trying to fit in all
> the von Neuman/structured/OOP programming developed for
> about 40 years. Good example - XSchema/XSD vs. IDL.
>
> And don't say that all these languages has a good reason
> to be, sure they have! It's just that we build a parallel
> universe, instead of improving existing one. And building
> parallel universes has some intrinsic dangers.
>
> Eldar
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:19:51 -0700
> From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> Michael,
>
> > The automakers chose to bypass BizTalk and OASIS to develop proprietary
> (but published) schemata.
>
> No surprise here. This has been something that's been the topic of panel
> discussions at several conferences (DISA, XML One), and I've heard it often
> in private discussions. Big software vendors are cognizant of what their
> customers want and what they are planning. I've heard time and again that
> large corporations were forging ahead, working with trading partners in
> their own industry, instead of waiting for initiatives to produce standard
> schemas (über schemas).
>
> Recently, for example, there was a meeting in Washington, D.C. to organize
> government contractors and agencies to cooperate on developing schemas and
> standards for e-commerce. Several of the big contractors declined the
> invitation to attend. Shortly after they announced an industry-specific
> initiative.
>
> > to distinguish the undeniable success of XML from the possible failings of
> ebXML or
> > BizTalk
>
> If you ignore the headline, it's clear John Taschek is writing about XML as
> a vehicle for e-commerce, not XML as a markup technology. The fact that some
> big players are pursuing industry-specific solutions does not mean ebXML and
> BizTalk will fold their tents. For one thing, there are a lot of small and
> medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who want to participate in e-commerce.
>
> > For that matter, I'm not at all sure the author understands what OASIS or
> Microsoft are trying to accomplish
>
> Here's an example of the problem with discussion groups. We don't know
> whether you've done any research to substantiate your assertions about the
> author. When he publishes something, it goes through a fact-checking process
> because his publication is aware of libel laws.
>
> Did you, for example, listen to this panel discussion? The author discussed
> business-to-business integration and a shoot-out his lab conducted with the
> U. of Minnesota and Power Team (division of SPX)?
>
> http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html?stream_id=9
>
>
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>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:04:33 -0700
> From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
> Subject: Antarctic Job Posting
>
> Hi all; my new startup uses XML plumbing but isn't all that XML-oriented;
> I'm posting the jobs here anyhow just because there's a chance I'll know
> anyone who might express interest. -Tim
> =======================================================================
> Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. is a venture-backed Vancouver-based startup which
> is building a general-purpose network mapping and visualization platform.
> Antarcti.ca's founder & CEO is Tim Bray, who co-founded Open Text
> (NASDAQ:OTEX) in 1989 and helped invent XML in 1996-98.
>
> The jobs will have the usual VC-financed Internet startup flavour:
> ridiculously high intensity, decent salaries, juicy stock options (the
> earlier the juicier), and a chance to change the fabric of the net. The
> founding partners are fortysomething and have run some companies before,
> so we think we'll be a bit better-organized than your average Internet
> startup.
>
> What we're looking for:
>
> Client Development
> Our client software operates in 2 and 3 dimensions; it talks to our
> database engine via XML over HTTP. The database is already running.
> We need graphically gifted and imaginative people who can imagine
> what the future looks like and are on top of enough 2D and 3D
> technology that they can build what they can imagine, and get it to
> run on the average desktop.
>
> Business Development/Product Management
> We have an immense amount of work to do in positioning our offering so
> that it provides a pleasant and productive user experience, and then
> in getting the word out to the first wave of prospective users. We
> need people who understand positioning, marketing, and the Web.
>
> Server-side Domain Leads
> The back-end software includes an SQL database (MySQL for now, but
> that's not carved in stone), a monster robot implemented in perl, and
> a superoptimized run-time engine implemented as an Apache module in C;
> (in-memory database, no SQL at runtime!). We need people to be
> development leads in each of these areas. The use of SQL is not very
> advanced; the Apache module uses basic interfaces; the robot does not
> use perl exotica, so you don't have to be an SQL, Apache, or perl god
> to qualify. We are however going to be driving a very public website
> so we need expertise in the production of robust and very very fast
> software.
>
> Web Site Operations
> In the near future, we'll be rolling out a monster 7/24 gigahit-capable
> website; we're going to need a Director of Operations who's been
> around this track before.
>
>
>
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>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:53:36 -0400
> From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
> Subject: Re: xsl:sort by attribute value?
>
> At 00/04/26 19:49 +0300, Marin Dimitrov wrote:
> >can I use <xsl:sort> to sort elements by attribute value?
>
> Yes, the XPath expression in select= is relative to the node being sorted.
>
> If you had data along the lines of:
>
> <emp empnbr="234">.....
> <emp empnbr="123">....
>
> ... and if you were using iteration, you would use something along the
> lines of:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="emp">
> <xsl:sort select="@empnbr"/>
> ....
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> XSL, XSLT and XPath questions would be better posted to the following list:
>
> http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>
> There are a number of subscribers who would enthusiastically respond to
> such questions.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> .............. Ken
>
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>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:36:47 -0700
> From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> > But XML does *not* solve the problem of semantic heterogeneity
> [ snip ]
> > one of the best things I expected from XML was simply that it would make
> the *real* semantic
> > problems visible
>
> No question there has to be semantic agreement. Those issues are being
> addressed:
>
> "Syntax-Neutral Definition of Business Semantics"
> Martin Bryan
> http://www.personal.u-net.com/~sgml/neutral.htm
>
>
> "Executable Trading-Partner Agreements in Electronic Commerce"
> Martin Sachs, Asit Dan, Thao Nugyen, Robert Kearney, Hidayatullah, Daniel
> Dias
> http://www.ibm.com/developer/xml/tpaml/tpapaper.pdf
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:07:10 -0400
> From: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
> To: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com>; <xml-dev@xml.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
>
> >
> > If you ignore the headline, it's clear John Taschek is writing about XML
> as
> > a vehicle for e-commerce, not XML as a markup technology
>
> I guess we should remember that authors seldom write headlines ... but
> nevertheless "Why XML is Failing" is so misleading that I for one have a
> hard time ignoring it. If it had been "XML is not the Holy Grail of
> eCommerce" I suppose I wouldn't have been so irritated ... but then again I
> wouldn't have bothered reading it.
>
> But I'm truly curious -- does the "real world" think of "XML" as a vehicle
> for e-commerce rather than a markup technology? The only way I can reconcile
> the article in question with the reality I understand is if "XML" means "the
> one true universal data format that supposedly allows automatic
> interoperability." The point that "you live by the hype, you die by the
> hype" is well taken, but I don't thing ANYONE hyped XML to the point that
> the article implies.
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:41:08 -0700
> From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> John Taschek wrote:
> "BizTalk and OASIS aim to use standards-based markup languages ... to help
> companies develop a standard way of talking to each other."
>
> Karl Best wrote:
> > He just doesn't get it.
>
> Karl,
>
> Let's not all jump on this bandwagon (shoot the messenger)! I read the
> article and included an excerpt above. The excerpt clearly indicates John
> Taschek understands the concept of markup languages (plural) -- as opposed
> to a singular XML standard for e-commerce.
>
> As for the example of the auto industry B2B exchanges, what he said in
> essence was participants in those exchanges will develop proprietary
> industry-specific schemas. He sees that as a loss for ebXML (OASIS) and
> BizTalk. Looking at this objectively, that's probably true. It would be
> beneficial if the auto industry was developing schemas in the context of a
> working group in a standards body -- and sharing expertise such as
> conceptual modeling with participants from other industries.
>
> Before we publicly question someone's knowledge or ability, don't we have a
> responsibility to check our facts? Your message criticizes ZDNet and the
> press, but (in my mind) you don't really make a case for why John Taschek
> should be painted with the broad brush you are using on other writers (not
> understanding the distinction between metalanguage and language).
>
> (By the way, the headline of those articles is often the choice of an
> editor, not the author.)
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:10:45 -0700
> From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> > But I'm truly curious -- does the "real world" think of "XML" as a vehicle
> > for e-commerce rather than a markup technology?
>
> At every conference since last October, we've asked the audience what they
> were doing with XML. The numbers have been consistent. 75% are planning or
> doing B2B e-commerce projects. (OK -- not very scientific -- and maybe that
> only proves people doing B2B projects have a bigger budget for conferences.)
>
> > I don't thing ANYONE hyped XML to the point that the article implies.
>
> Listen to (or read) Steve Ballmer's remarks over the past year. His title is
> CEO, but he sounds like Steve Ballmer, XML Evangelist. Here's the URL for
> his recent speech about XML being a "fundamental shift" in the way we do
> business and government:
>
> http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_news/ceo-xml.shtml
>
> Ballmer said:
> XML will become the "universal medium by which Web sites and users of Web
> sites communicate,"
>
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:01:43 -0400
> From: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
> To: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com>; <xml-dev@xml.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:10 PM
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
>
>
> > > I don't thing ANYONE hyped XML to the point that the article implies.
> >
> > Listen to (or read) Steve Ballmer's remarks over the past year.
> > http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_news/ceo-xml.shtml
> >
>
> You got me there! Ballmer's hype is pretty monumental, paraphrased later in
> this article as "Ballmer's optimism that XML will flawlessly usher in a new
> means of doing business." So I can see how a reasonable journalist could
> feel the need to deflate this particular hype balloon.
>
> Thanks for setting me straight ... it's scary to look back on such hype; it
> reminds me of 1997 or so when Java was hyped as the Windows-killing
> universal client... and of 1998 when it was considered a failure for not
> sending Bill G. to the poorhouse. We should probably get ready for a spate
> of "XML didn't solve the world's problems, so it's dead" articles. Sigh.
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:08:23 -0500
> From: Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
> Subject: Re: List server: "fixed"
>
> Norman Walsh wrote:
> >
> > As of a few minutes ago, and apparently running without error,
> > all of the lists served by OASIS have been reconfigured. Each is
> > now archived, digested, and running bulk_mailer to improve
> > throughput. The caching DNS server is running and slowly
> > rebuilding its cache since my recent reboot.
>
> Three cheers, for Norm!
>
> Thanks Norm.
>
> len
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:04:25 -0500
> From: Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> KenNorth wrote:
> >
> > Ballmer said:
> > XML will become the "universal medium by which Web sites and users of Web
> > sites communicate,"
>
> Not me. I just do midi and MP3. ;-)
>
> Articles like this are to be expected. XML doesn't care.
>
> XML *is* overhyped and a bit overvalued. Doesn't mean it
> doesn't work. Just means everyone won't agree all of the
> time what to use it for. Industry specific schema's are
> fine. More work for us. More ownership for them.
>
> I saw a great XML script yesterday. It used SMIL primitives
> and additional tags to feed a vocoder speech and a talkingHead
> 3D file gestures. The inventor calls it Wylbur. Cool as
> all heck for an old hoss like me used to the hay of CALS.
> Fascinating stuff ahead as the artists begin to see the potential
> in namespace integrated languages for creating XML personality
> profiles for 3D characters driven by XML gesture langauages:
>
> Karma ML or just KarML. A horse is horse of course, Wylbur.
>
> So, really, let them babble. Unless you are one of those who
> has some kind of stock option rated by how many sites use
> XML, more people get it than ever, and by gum, they are
> enjoying it too.
>
> Woohoo.
>
> len
>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:13:12 -0700
> From: Paul Tchistopolskii <paul@qub.com>
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
> > > > I don't thing ANYONE hyped XML to the point that the article implies.
> > >
> > > Listen to (or read) Steve Ballmer's remarks over the past year.
> > > http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_news/ceo-xml.shtml
> > >
> >
> > You got me there! Ballmer's hype is pretty monumental, paraphrased later in
> > this article as "Ballmer's optimism that XML will flawlessly usher in a new
> > means of doing business."
>
> Probably I don't understand the difference between MS hype
> and Sun/Oracle/Netscape/W3C hype, but I found *absolutely* nothing
> extraordinary in Ballmer's statements ( I used the URL above,
> maybe you are discussing some other article ? )
>
> There are very few quotes of Ballmer's words and I would like to
> comment on those quotes.
>
> <quote>
> Calling it an "incredibly important invention," Ballmer says XML
> "will make it much more possible to link Web sites and to link
> consumers to Web sites in rich, interesting ways."
> </quote>
>
> Where is the hype? X-link, XSLT and some other W3C
> stuff ( with some support by web browsers ) realy
> make it much more possible to link Web sites and link
> consumers to Web sites in rich, interesting ways.
>
> Where is the hype here ? Probably the hype is
> that Ballmer is using the word 'XML' when he should
> actualy use the wording "XML and some associated
> XML standards/recommendations" ? I don't think
> he should be blamed for such a subtile thing.
>
> <quote>
> XML will become the "universal medium by which Web
> sites and users of Web sites communicate," Ballmer says.
> </quote>
>
> Where is the hype here? Should Ballmer start explaining
> that :
>
> As we all know ( at least those of us who have spend
> some time reading "Mythical man-month" by Brooks )
> the core thing in software development appears to be
> not the code but data structures ( AKA dataflows ).
>
> XML makes some step and provides some simplification
> here ( in the core area of software development).
>
> XML provides ( sometimes trivial ) improvements with
> serialization of relatively complex data structures in
> a *bit* more open and portable fashion comparing
> XML to any known 'competitive' solutions including:
>
> binary and / or
> proprietary and / or
> oversimplified ( comma-separted ASCII files ) and / or
> not scalable ( HTML ) and / or
> bloated ( SGML )
>
> The data and dataflows is the backbone of
> software development. *any* simplification
> ( even *very* subtile and *trivial* ) in this area is
> incredibly influencing.
>
> I bet that *any* developer after he discovers how
> easy it is to write some home-grown configuration
> file in XML and to process it with DOM, he will
> then *never* think about writing yet-another-comma-or-:-or
> some-other-thing separated.ini/config file.
>
> Is this trivial simplification? Yes it is. ( like many other
> simplifications provided by XML )
>
> But:
>
> There is nothing *better* yet. This is Ballmer's
> point.
>
> Are there any alternatives to XML to build the
> 'logical layer on top of IP' ?
>
> I have to agree with Ballmer that there is no alternatives
> for *this* problem domain.
>
> ( I know what is Corba and I don't think
> it is alternative , because it is much harder to use.
> I'm not saying that Corba is better than XML or opposite.
> I'm saying that XML simplifies *much* wider spector of
> tasks than Corba does - even Corba / RMI simplifies some
> things much better ).
>
> That means Ballmer's point :
>
> "universal medium by which Web
> sites and users of Web sites communicate,"
>
> is *perfectly* reasonable. I see no hype here. If somebody
> thinks that Ballmer is wrong and the medium would be built
> on top of binary ( Corba) / and/or simplified ( HTML, csv e t.c)
> and/or some other way - that somebody will just make
> another 'prediction' ( like: Corba will take over and will become
> that 'universal medium'. ).
>
> But I see absolutely no hype. Ballmer says that Web will be
> built on XML instead of HTML.
>
> Is is legal to call HTML 'universal medium' of current Web ?
> I think it is. That means it is also legal to call XML
> 'universal medium' of the tomorrow's Web.
>
> <quote>
> Encoding data in XML will let various platforms "talk" to each other.
> This is key to taking e-commerce and e-government to the next level,
> Ballmer predicts.
> </quote>
>
> No hype here.
>
> When *any* system allows an option to serialize
> some data into 'open' text format such a system is
> *always* *much* more scalable than the same system
> with no such ability. Just imagine if Adobe Frame Maker
> with have no MIF format.
>
> The biggest obstacle for interoperability are vendors.
> I don't know why vendors are closing their formats.
>
> 1. XML 'forces' proprietary system to behave
> in 'more open' fasion. ( Politicaly ).
>
> 2. 1. XML 'forces' proprietary system to behave
> in 'more open' fasion. ( Technicaly ).
>
> Nobody prevents vendors to ship 'unreadable' XML file,
> but having it in XML at least simplifies the process of hacking
> the format, when you have to write some extension
> for yet another proprietary system.
>
> Is it trivial simplification when you need to reverese-engeneer
> 'closed' text file but not 'closed' binary file? Yes it is trivial.
> But is *is* a simplification in the core part of dataflow / data.
> ( See above ).
>
> > Thanks for setting me straight ... it's scary to look back on such hype; it
> > reminds me of 1997 or so when Java was hyped as the Windows-killing
> > universal client... and of 1998 when it was considered a failure for not
> > sending Bill G. to the poorhouse. We should probably get ready for a spate
> > of "XML didn't solve the world's problems, so it's dead" articles. Sigh.
>
> Hyping Java to kill Windows on the client side was just plain
> *technicaly* *stupid*.
>
> ( Let me not explain what particular technical mistakes have
> been made by designers of Java language, I think those who
> are aware of Java internals already know what I mean. People
> who wrote Juice have some nice explanations on their website,
> and early books written by some of Java inventors also
> have some reasonable and honest statements.
> Don't know what happens in second editions of the
> same book.).
>
> I don't see any hype of this kind in Ballmer's quotes. I see
> no statements which are stupid from technical standpoit.
> More. I agree with Ballmer from technical standpoint.
>
> I see a lot of hype from people who are making money
> publishing some stupid articles and playing some
> political games instead of being honest and responsible
> ( I mean some journalists ). But that's typical thing. It has
> nothing to do with the technology. Politics and media walk
> hand by hand in any country.
>
> I don't think Ballmer should be in any way blamed for the
> quotes I found in this article. Probably there is some
> other URL somewhere?
>
> Rgds.Paul.
>
> PS. Can't belive I'm defending MS CEO ;-)
>
>
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