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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Programmers are developers. So are the SMEs who can
> develop markup without implementing markup systems.
> Statements that XML is for programmers are not only
> wrong, they contravene the most important function
> of markup systems: to keep the authors working and
> to use the programmers sparingly. SMEs are the semantic
> experts. The programmers work for them; not the other
> way around.
XML is for developers. XML is for authors. XML is for anyone that needs
to add type and structure to information.
You simply cannot ignore the large class of organizations turning to XML
as an application communication mechanism where programs both generate
and consume the XML messages used in the system. There are no "authors"
involved because the subject matter expert in this case is the
"programmer" that originally defined the data structures used in the
system.
-aaron
http://staff.develop.com/aarons
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