Re: [xml-dev] "The syntax view" was Re: [xml-dev] [OT] Re: [xml-dev]Less

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 11/17/13 9:44 AM, Pete Cordell wrote:
> So Simon, to bring it up to 17 times, you've said why XSD/Namespace etc
> doesn't work for you, but I'm not clear what your methodology is
> instead. How do you go from concept to version 1 product to version 2
> and so on?  How is change managed and how do you verify that nothing has
> died as a result of those changes?
Mostly I no longer give a damn, but when I do:

<http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/StLaurent01/BalisageVol10-StLaurent01.html#d146424e677>

At this point I've largely left the XML universe in any case, except 
conversationally.  XML spoiled me early with a smart and active 
community - there really aren't equivalents in related technology.

My hopes for a path forward in markup, though, are largely on the HTML 
side, rekindled by the slow emergence of Web Components and supporting 
standards.  I suspect that those will do more to push the world toward 
markup than anything else we've come up with, unless they're strangled 
by the standards/implementer process.

> Note that my use-case is more the computer-to-computer one, where the
> XML is often conceptually an API boundary that more than one party works
> to.
Yeah.  If you want to use XML for that, go ahead, but it's not a case 
where XML is necessary or best.  You'll find various references to those 
situations in the paper too.

Thanks,
--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/