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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:32:49 -0500, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
wrote:
> That's a lot of why I'm talking less and less about XML and more and
> more about markup.
Yup. Well, I don't blame you ... and I hear similar frustrations from the
"data" side about the constraints that XML syntax handling imposes. The
"data" and "sevices" people with their infosets and datatypes and
requirements for millisecond-timeframe XML instance processing certainly
create challenges. On balance, I would prefer to preserve and refine what
is common in the center so that APIs, schema languages, query languages,
etc. can be shared across both communities. But I certainly respect the
hypothesis that the path of least resistance is for the communities to
fork.
That may well be what's going to happen, for a lot of reasons -- nobody
can get passionate about muddy compromises, so the center often does not
hold.
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