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I'm having difficulty understanding your arguments and it seems you are debating several issues at once and conflating them together. From what I gather you think Microsoft overhyped XML, Joe Gregorio has put forth a ground breaking idea and Web Services are worthless. I disagree with all three but since I doubt anything worthwhile will come out of engaging in verbal sniping with you, I'll just be on my way.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:24 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Cc: joe@bitworking.org
>
> Dare writes:
> > The web described by Joe Gregorio has nothing to do with XML and
> > everything to do with buyers & sellers agreeing on shared semantics
> > and manipulating Google to become their global marketplace.
>
> I didn't get any sense from Paul Ford's piece or Joe's piece
> that "manipulating Google" was necessary. Shared semantics,
> sure, but I do keep reading about XML lets people focus on
> such things without investing huge amounts of time in syntax,
> or even in new tools.
>
> > Agreeing
> > on shared semantics is the crux of the matter not whether
> XML, RDF or
> > whatever fashionable markup buzzword is of interest to you.
>
> Yeah, it's all just information. I just can't figure out why
> Microsoft keeps talking about XML all the time, when XML and
> RDF are really the same thing, and we all need relational
> datatypes in our markup.
>
> > Manipulating Google in the manner described is already
> possible today,
> > the question is whether Google will stnad for it since they
> are known
> > to hand tweak their algorithms if necessary to change undesirable
> > results.
>
> Again, in Paul Ford's piece, there's this nice paragraph:
> ------------------------------
> Finally, Google realized they could grab a cut on the ³Web of
> Trust² idea by offering their own verification and rating
> service, $15 a year to answer a questionnaire, have your
> credit checked, and fill in some bank account information.
> But people signed up, because Google was the marketplace; the
> Google seal of approval meant more than the government's.
> ------------------------------
>
> > What does web services have to do with anything???
>
> In this case, it struck me that the model Joe proposes is, as
> he acknowledges, "very RESTian", and fits very nicely into
> the existing Web without the need for whole extra stacks of
> envelopes, headers, etc. on top of what's pretty simple XML.
>
> In general, however, the question "what does web services
> have to do with anything???" seems like a good one.
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