RE: XML Blueberry

[Michael Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net>]

About twenty years ago someone offered me these three options: Adapt,
migrate, or die.

It applies well to XML in this case and just about anything else I can think
of.

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com
[mailto:Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:45 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: XML Blueberry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:34 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: XML Blueberry
>
>
> If you can show  that, then we can reasonably compare the costs and
> benefits of this proposal. But if you can't show that, then you're
> asking to impose very real costs on XML developers around the world
> for what may well prove to be an illusory benefit.
It seems as though you assume that XML is a given, and the rest of the world
has little choice but to adapt itself to the XML Way. I'd reverse the
equation: if XML imposes real costs on developers around the world, no
matter what their language or platform, for what may prove to be an illusory
benefit, it will be supplanted by something that has a better cost/benefit
ratio.  At the moment, there may well be more native speakers of Khmer,
Ahmaric, and Mongolian on the 'Net than there are XML developers. Granted,
the use cases driving Blueberry are not likely to cause wholesale defection
from the XML cause, but XML 1.0 is too young to ossify, and not
well-established enough to take for granted.
Evolve or be displaced. As the bard put it, "he not busy bein' born is busy
dyin'."