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4/8/2002 11:47:27 AM, "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@seairth.com> wrote:
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>So the reality is that this is just too much of a paradigm shift for anyone
>to really feel that it is worth taking on... ah well... back to the
>drawing board.
Perhaps. Sorry for the digression, but the whole POINT of a "paradigm" (going back
to Thomas Kuhn) is that it frees up "normal" people from having to think about the
big picture and imponderable questions so that they can get on with their work. XML
is beginning to look like it actually has a paradigm -- and even Schematron, RNG,
etc. fit into the namespaces part reasonably easily. Most people would rather learn
to deal with a klunky paradigm than to think about imponderables, so you definitely
have an uphill battle!
So, will XML (either the DTD flavor or the namespaces+schemas flavor, or both) work
well enough so that ordinary blokes can use it to get their work done without
pondering the imponderable much of the time? Will this lead to a viable industry
with the cruft hidden behind abstraction layers and tools? We shall see ... if not,
better ideas will be in demand, but right now we are in a time of more
consolidation, less innovation, in the XML world.
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