Re: Fwd: [xml-dev] Not using mixed content? Then don't use XML

[Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Simon St.Laurent
<simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:
> On 4/10/13 2:11 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>>
>> Of course the value of things we use and do should be challenged but
>> here there appears to be alot of work to do before we can say that the
>> X in this case can substitute for Y.
>
> I recognize that most of those who are left in XML work for organizations in
> which the very brittleness of schema-based development is considered a plus
> rather than a minus, and that for the most part those organizations don't
> give a damn about whether XML grows or not. It works for them, right?
>
> Hence this conversation.  I think XML has a bright future if we can develop
> practices for it that appeal to organizations very different from yours.
>

I don't have an affiliation, just pontificating from past experience.