Sall, Kenneth B. wrote:
> How about 6 more:
>
> XML Schema
> XSLT/XPath
> SOAP/WSDL
> RDF/OWL
> UBL in certain circles
> XQuery (rapidly gaining traction)
>
Why RDF/OWL? Who actually uses it? (I have a perception of people
adopting it, then figuring out they didn't get any extra benefit over
using plain old XML. Which is not to say it must always be that way or
that my perception is accurate.)
Also, the trouble with talking about the top-5 etc is that it can lead
to a mentality that the purpose of XML is to allow standardization of
vocabularies, whereas in fact it is just as much about allowing
localized schemas: the ability to standardize on sector-specific schemas
is a side-effect of the semantics-free extensibility.
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
