xml-dev - XML standard?

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Not a very knowledgeable article.  It repeats what 
has been known for a long time about markup based 
technology and which reflects what the experienced 
practitioners said from the beginning of the current 
generation of markup, XML.  Markup was 
designed precisely to enable this variation and the 
transform language to cushion the effects of diversity.  
Without differentiation, there is no competition.  
Without cooperation, there is no coherence in 
business processes.  These forces can and 
must co-exist in the same trading space. 

To  assert the environment converges on one or two languages 
is to misstate the goal and processes of information lifecycles in an 
evolving environment and to reveal a lack of study of the history of 
the applications of markup technologies.

Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety
clbullar@ingr.com
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


> XML Can't Settle On A Standard
> 
> While XML is emerging as a key language of B-to-B commerce,
> fragmentation will be an inhibitor for XML adoption in general, a
> GartnerGroup XML expert said. 
>      
> Despite the fragmentation, GartnerGroup expects the XML uptake to be
> quite rapid, said Sanjeev Varma, a research director at the company. 
> 
> He predicts that through 2002, no single XML protocol standard will
> be used in more than 5 percent of all new XML applications. But by
> 2005, only two or three protocol standards will be used to create the
> protocols expressed in more than 90 percent of all new XML
> applications 
> 
> Will XML settle on a protocol? Read on:
> 
> http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20000913S0005
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