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   RE: [xml-dev] Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention

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  • To: "Michael Champion" <michaelc.champion@gmail.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
  • Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention
  • From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:09:20 -0800
  • Thread-index: AcTJAu0adY9DG0ncTYO0+eaBSOlSewAAK7JQ
  • Thread-topic: [xml-dev] Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention

> not bother with the Atom format standard  since the RSS mess is ugly
> but under control; rather focus on an Atom API standard, where worse
> is definitely NOT better.

Yes.  And to say that XML's success is a prescription for how to "fix"
RSS is a bit ironic.  RSS is the most successful application of XML to
date, and is still one of the most visible examples that one can hold
out to a non-geek to explain why XML is successful.




 

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