RE: almost four years ago....

["Anderson, John" <John@Barbadosoft.com>]

Title: RE: almost four years ago....

Sorry, I was being facetious. However, you seem to have made the same point with rather more clarity.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
Sent: 19 June 2001 15:46
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: almost four years ago....

Nope.  The vendors who bought it did.

 

XML is not a miracle.  It was the selling

of SGML to those who didn't like SGML

because those who sold it to them told

them not to, thus neatly enabling a private

consortium to take control of the intellectual

property of the International Standards Organization

and privatize the ownership of it.

 

XML Doesn't Do Anything.  That is rule

number 1.  Rule number 2 is that to do

anything with XML, you need a domain

that exists, something to mark up.  It needs

no new universes, no new domains,

just information you put your NamespaceURI

stake in and claim like public lands in the Oklahoma

land rush.  Then you code handlers.

 

The greed that drove XML into the public consciousness

died with the dot.bomb  at the cost of a few trillion invested

and now vapor fading like the lights in a rolling blackout.

XML is about syntax.  So is CSV.  The

magic is in the head of the developer.  The

X is just something a filter stores when looking

for three in a row.

Len
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson, John [mailto:John@Barbadosoft.com]

And that X opened up a whole new universe of domain names which "mean" something.