RE: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17 September: Elliotte Rusty Harold on What's Wrong with XML APIs (and How to Fix Them)

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

How can an Application Programming Interface(API) be Open Source(tm)? I assume you mean that there should be at least one Open Source implementation of the API and not that the API should be Open Source, correct? 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu] 
	Sent: Thu 9/12/2002 7:08 AM 
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	Subject: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17 September: Elliotte Rusty Harold on What's Wrong with XML APIs (and How to Fix Them)
	
	

	At 2:48 PM +0000 9/12/02, Martin Klang wrote:
	
	>I believe the same approach could be used to create an object-oriented
	>procedural language, which (as by chance..) is what i've been busying
	>myself with lately. If you're interested, the work i've done so far on
	>creating a spec and compiler/interpertor can be seen here ->>
	>
	
	Perhaps. I did notice your announcements on FreshMeat this morning,
	but I didn't look at them too closely, because as you'll hear on the
	17th, one of my design principles is that non-open source XML APIs
	die, completely irrespective of whether or not the technology is any
	good. What you have may be a significant leap forward in processing
	XML, but as long as it's closed, it's irrelevant. If you want people
	to pay attention to new ideas in the XML world, open is the only way
	to go.
	--
	
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