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At 11:22 AM 5/9/2003 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>The fundamental complaint I have about XML-DEV is that people are very
>good at generating megabytes of mail traffic about technologies they
>neither have used nor tried to understand. XML-DEV is a festival of
>cranky old men complaining about the "youth of today" and how things
>were better in the XML world in the old days. I've read the few
>complaints about XQuery & XSLT 2.0 and besides irrational FUD about
>dependencies on W3C XML Schema have failed to see any valid issues
>brought up.
The "good old days", they were very brief, and our golden memories seem to
derive from a period when XML was defined as a process of creating smaller
specifications that were easily implemented by graduate students rather
than enormous specifications that take person-years to comprehend and
implement.
It is very difficult for me to get excited about more recent
specifications, despite having spent/wasted an enormous amount of time
sorting out W3C XML Schema for myself. I've put in the time and I've
concluded that W3C XML Schema is poison from top to bottom, structures to
datatypes, a misbegotten attempt to treat XML as if it were objects and/or
relational database content with a tip of the hat to XML 1.0's basic set of
attribute types and a 'mixed' feature. Worse, W3C XML Schema seemed to
signal the beginning of a pile-on of enormous and ever-more ambitious
specifications.
There is still progress being made, of course, in ways that seem to build
on what was learned in that brief "old day" period. Perhaps there is irony
in that work being done ISO (and OASIS).
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