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RE: [xml-dev] Caught napping!
So, what are you saying here, Tim? That we don't need interoperable data
structures and APIs? Or that the effort is futile and we should just give
up?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:13 AM
> To: XML DEV
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Caught napping!
>
>
> At 10:07 PM 12/11/01 -0800, Ronald Bourret wrote:
> >Out of curiousity, how many people think of XML in text
> terms, not model
> >terms? My guess is that even proponents of well-formed XML eventually
> >fall into the model camp, but I'm not sure.
>
> As I've said before,
>
> 1. the only normative definitions of XML, and of Namespaces,
> operate almost completely at a syntactic level.
> 2. I've been in software for 20 years and I've seen lots
> of interoperable cross-platform syntax and very rarely
> an interoperable cross-platform data structure or API.
>
> Obviously, once you're dealing with some XML inside of
> a program, you think in terms of the structure. But XML's
> interoperability is strongly linked to the fact that
> its definition is syntactic. -Tim
>
>
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