(was: Software lock in?)

On 03/22/2017 07:54 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Given that hardly any automotive documentation is in XML (or even SGML)
> any more ("too hard"), it's probably moot for this group, unless we want
> to start a user-supported tractor-documentation project:-

I would argue, smilingly, that Peter's "too hard" observation is 
on-topic.  Dead center, even.  Is XML the future of XML?  Such a 
question can never be ruled out-of-order.

If the XML community doesn't choose to respond to change, or even 
acknowledge it, it is moribund.  Adapt or die.

Steve

P.S.: SGML was "too hard", too.  The transformation into XML involved 
shedding features that, in retrospect, were solutions to problems that 
had once been considered compelling.