RE: [xml-dev] Has XML run its course?

["Fuchs, Matthew" <matthew.fuchs@commerceone.com>]

But is that intrinsic or just an issue of primogeniture?

Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:19 PM
> To: Murali Mani
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Has XML run its course?
> 
> 
...
> 
> Namespaces is the most controversial topic 
> because it does alter the definition of XML 1.0 
> quite directly and because it is underfined 
> and it's implications not well-understood. 
> 
> len
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murali Mani [mailto:mani@CS.UCLA.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:11 PM
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Has XML run its course?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> 
> > The smart people won't abandon XML.  They will take
> > XML Schemas and learn to use them like a farmer builds a
> > stone wall and marks grazing land from the vegetable
> > garden.   Others will use XSLT to make meals of the
> > produce and the meat.  Some, unable to stand the
> > enclosures of the commons will go looking for
> > more adventure and some ideal of freedom elsewhere.
> > In the end, most will have most of what they want,
> > but a few will go to their graves cursing the farmers,
> > cursing the bankers and yearning for the good old
> > days when they could sling a tag-stacking HTML parser
> > over their backs and go huntin' grizz.
> 
> why are you combining xml and xml schemas -- people using XML 
> does *not*
> imply they will use XML Schemas.
> 
> XML Schemas, to the best of my knowledge, has been the most 
> controversial
> topic, so I think saying that XML implies XML Schema is not correct. I
> think these are the mistakes we (especially the more knowledgeable and
> experienced people) should try to avoid.
> 
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