Re: [xml-dev] Should one adopt the tag naming convention of anexisting X

[cbullard@hiwaay.net]

The history of XML from day 1 has been about the convenience of  
programmers or near-programmers, the infamous DePH.

It took marketing to make it about customer needs.  The embedded  
context is in those text nodes that we mostly ignore.

len


Quoting Greg Hunt <greg@firmansyah.com>:

> Isn't this the example in point?  The world revolves around developers and
> the geometry gets a bit strange when there is more than one (well, more
> than one distinct developer culture).  The XML that matters is the XML that
> is shared and then it is embedded in some business context with its own
> language and culture and needs to conform with the language and culture to
> remain easily shareable.  If its not shared, then the tools are what
> matter.