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Yep. XML itself is boring. It's plumbing.
But that's only the code side. If one takes the position that
the 'interesting' topics are about development/programming
and all other issues are noise then yes, the list becomes
irrelevant to a publication with different interests as
the programming threads evolve into perma-threads because of
the market cycle for XML products. On the other hand, XML,
as a side effect of its ubiquity, becomes an attractor for
many different topics of discussion. Web 2.0 was an example.
O'Reilly is heavily invested in that term as a branding strategy
and big segments of the programmer community reject it as
that and only that. Conflict of interests.
Someone has the opportunity to pick up the brand name
and use it for a blog, maybe several, or a different
online magazine. I suspect "XML-Deviant: the Column"
will find a new home.
len
From: Robin Berjon [mailto:robin.berjon@expway.fr]
Paul Spencer wrote:
> Of course, I never said that when support might have kept it
> going :-(
I don't think it's lack of publicly vocal support that killed it,
everyone loves the deviant and that's a well-known fact! From its
beginning right to the end it's been one of my favourite tech columns,
and I'm sure I'm not alone there.
I think it's just that XML's become a bit boring these days thanks to
its overwhelming success, and there's not much left to write about that
hasn't been covered to death already, at least not on as regular a basis
as the deviant.
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