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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] the death of the black box
 Wow I thought I was the only one the used the Phantom Tollbooth as a bible! My concern is that the eventual realization of this "big picture" might get crippled if we allow this fear of it to continue to be instilled into the masses. People want XML functionality, and they want it now -- THEY SAY. But when you start really talking to these businesses, they don't even realize what it has to potential to accomplish. So let's slow down a bit so we don't have anymore disasters like it appears this Namespace thing resulted in, and instead, perhaps we should question the overall viability of technologies, such as RDF, or anything else who appear to be dysfunctional until "things that will be defined in another document" miraculously appear. If we're designing an architecture, it would be pretty silly to build the house on top of screwjacks because somebody's got the nicest rug they want to put in, yes? It seems to me that's where were headed. I thought the explanation Eliot gave the other day was very straight forward and enlightening -- and that says a lot about how fundamental some of these issues are -- because let's face it guys --compared to most of the people in this list, I'm a beginner big-time! Yet recently I've been able to enable all sorts of different XML functionalities at many levels -- and I'm not even getting good at Java yet! I'll admit that I've had to rely on the advice of a comrade or two to get the job done....in fact, alright, I've always had to rely on the advice of a comrade or two -- but only at the mailing-list intensity level that we are conversing right here -- for maybe ten or fifteen minutes -- that's doesn't even count as an obstruction in my book. My point is exactly what Eliot always says -- A lot of this is *NOT* rocket science -- as many would have people believe. If it's ooooh soo complicated, then scardie-cat developers will have to buy a black box to do everything for them. If the world were to discover just how basic some of this stuff is -- they might never buy a black box again! And would that really be so bad? :-) lisa W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > > At 07:45 AM 4/2/98 -0800, Roy Tennant wrote: > >Sometimes the best solution is NOT the most thorough or general one, but > >the simplest. > > The problem is that the definition of "best" changes with the use scenario. > > Cheers, > > Eliot > -- > <Address HyTime=bibloc> > W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer > Highland Consulting, a division of ISOGEN International Corp. > 2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 95202. 214.953.0004 > www.isogen.com > </Address> > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 
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