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   RE: [xml-dev] Managing Innovation

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Megginson [mailto:dmeggin@attglobal.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 5:33 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Managing Innovation
> 
> It's a lot like XML: XML 1.0/1.1 are very simple, just like 
> the Unix/Linux kernel.  All of the specs that depend on XML 
> are not simple, of course, just like all of the apps that run 
> on Posix systems are not simple.

XML 1.0 is not simple let alone very simple.  It's simpler than SGML and
binary formats but that doesn't make it very simple. CSV files &
S-expressions on the other hand are very simple. Of course, once you
start comparing XML to technologies like RDF, XSLT, XML Schema, etc then
it does seem simple in comparison. 

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