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> Well, if there's no flamage to be found here, we'll just go dig it up
> elsewhere, apparently:
>
> 'Andrew Watt
> "XHTML 2.0 - the W3C leading the Web to its full potential ... to implement
> yesterday's technology tomorrow"'
<rant>
This is the sort of thing that has really got my goat lately. I have no
patience for people who insist only on tearing down the work people are doing,
without doing any competing building of their own.
I think this already characterizes too much of the debate against RDF. Rather
than people saying "hey, I don't like RDF, but rather than using it, I'll
use/invent technology X for the following technical reasons...", people are
asking vacuous questions such as "what value does RDF add?" Now this sort of
nonsense seems to have spread to discussion of XHTML. I have no problem with
opposition to, say, RDF or XHTML itself. I have a lot of respect for the
Topic Maps folks who say "we think RDF is broken: look at what we're building
instead".
The sad thing is that none of those making vacuous attacks against XHTML seem
to be building any alternatives in the open. They want to maintain the status
quo, despite the fact that if we are not erecting edifices in the open,
commercial interests will build their own skyscrapers behind their corporate
cloaking devices, unveil them all of a sudden, and suddenly charge us all
taxes for viewing the altered skyline.
People who do not like WXS have done impressive work around Schematron and
RELAX NG. Some of us who do not like XPath and XSLT 2.0 are earnestly trying
to get work going on XPath NG. Progress is made when the competition features
plumbers on both sides. When we have plumbers on one side, and just pundits
on the other, the result is pure bathos.
Andrew, this is a list of *developers*. Therefore, by every cultural
convention, it is *your* burden to prove why people should not be building
things rather than insist that they make formal justification before laying
every brick.
</rant>
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Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com
Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p
y.html
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind
ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in
dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807
Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork
s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html
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