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Subject: RE: [xml-dev] The triples datamodel -- was Re: [xml-dev] Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:16:01 +0100
Cc: "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>,"'Dave Pawson'" <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>
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> IMHO, XML's biggest mistake was to make validation optional.
> 

I sense a general law here. For every successful technology T, T's biggest
mistake was the feature that made T successful.

For example, Java's biggest mistake was trying to make the language
compatible with C. 

Michael Kay

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