RE: XML Blueberry

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

Then we must understand the level above that.  The 
web has become an ecology of abstractions.  What 
XML brought to the party was a common way to express 
these abstractions and share them in renderings or 
operations of our own choosings.  But the abstractions 
are the important level of information that now must 
be shared.  For the universe of trade to thrive and 
cohere, as Frank Herbert wrote, "The spice must flow." 
It is the schematization of abstractions and the 
insistence that these remain the property of the 
commons, not the private profit property of the 
few that we now pursue.

The ASCII thing is done.  

The killer app is not a web app: it is a tool for 
creating and rendering abstractions that works 
in ANY medium.  The abstractions are now the commodities 
of exchange.

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

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Lauren Wood [mailto:lauren@softquad.com]

The fact that XML uses Unicode is important to that saying; the fact that
XML 
misses some of the characters is less important to the 50,000-foot view 
when telling people why they should look into what XML can do for them.