RE: [xml-dev] SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism

 (Bullard, Claude L (Len)) writes:

>At least it is easy to see now how SGML became as 
>complex as it did over time.  What doesn't get 
>put into XML shows up in the applications.  It 
>will be fun as some of us get closer to retirement 
>and watch the next generation of "we can do this 
>simpler and better".
>
>Cars and jets never get simpler overall.  Why 
>do people believe software should?

In general, I don't expect it should.  In this case, I think it's funny,
because a group threw away all those features, claiming they were too
obscure, and then reinvented them in a form that seems even more
obscure.

Reinventing the wheel is fine, as long as you come up with a better
wheel.  I think XML 1.0 (and perhaps XSLT 1.0) set a standard for
improving wheels by simplification that hasn't been matched since.

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