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Yep. The network effect would be the discovery by users
that RelaxNG is a productivity enhancer and being adopted
by significant numbers of partners.
1. If application language developers for the W3C and other
organizations adopt it, that is a positive feedback effect.
See Robin's note on SVG.
2. If at least one tool vendor of note implements it, that will couple
to the effect in item one. How strong the effect is, I don't know.
In a market where 'good enough' is provided, it is hard to create
demand for marginal items without playing Tootsie Fruitsie.
Maybe the question is, how expensive is it to implement and
integrate RelaxNG tools? For VS, possibly high given that
XSD is coupled tightly and hidden as much as possible in VS.
len
From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
As you point out Betamax lost out because video stores couldn't afford
to support multiple formats. What makes you think the same doesn't apply
for tools vendors and integrating mutltiple schema languages into their
tools and frameworks? Simply having the W3C start trumpetting RELAX NG
as the second coming isn't enough. You have to have paying customers
asking tools vendors to bear the costs of supporting multiple schema
languages.
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