Re: [xml-dev] Where is XML going

[COUTHURES Alain <alain.couthures@agencexml.com>]

The graph vs. tree modeling has benefits because it's a database.

Le 05/12/2010 21:12, Simon St.Laurent a écrit :
> On 12/5/10 2:47 PM, Rob Koberg wrote:
>>  From all of the suggestions, I find myself asking why would anyone
>> change from JSON/JS to XML2/something? How would you convince the
>> browser vendors to accomodate  some new version of XML? Why is any of
>> this attractive to web devs? (if that is still the focus derived from
>> the James Clark blog post)
>>
>> How do you get around cross domain security which includes different
>> virtual hosts on the same domain and http schemes (http and https)?
>> And you still need javascript to drive the transformations with
>> anything other than the processing instruction transform, unless that
>> would somehow change.
>>
>> I would bet people outside the XML community would look at what has to
>> change, weigh the benefits, and say meh.
>
> I don't get to agree with Rob very often, but yes, exactly, 100%.
>
> There might still be benefits to people already inside the XML 
> community, and I suspect that's why there are 80 messages on this list 
> over the weekend, but I wouldn't expect this to make for a great 
> evangelical crusade beyond the already-converted.
>
> Thanks,