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Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????

• From: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@i...>
• To: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@s...>, <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 02:54:17 -0400

>I guess we should remember that authors seldom write headlines ... but
>nevertheless "Why XML is Failing" is so misleading that I for one have a
>hard time ignoring it. If it had been "XML is not the Holy Grail of
>eCommerce" I suppose I wouldn't have been so irritated ... but then again I
>wouldn't have bothered reading it.

As a past editor I can tell you that part of the job is to write headlines
that will grab peoples attention.

Whoever wrote this headline certainly succeded. I doubt very much that "XML
is not the Holy Grail of
>eCommerce" would have grabed as many people by the 'you know what!'

Frank


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Champion <Mike.Champion@s...>
To: <xml-dev@x...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@e...>
> To: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@s...>;
<xml-dev@x...>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
>
>
> >
> > If you ignore the headline, it's clear John Taschek is writing about XML
> as
> > a vehicle for e-commerce, not XML as a markup technology
>
> I guess we should remember that authors seldom write headlines ... but
> nevertheless "Why XML is Failing" is so misleading that I for one have a
> hard time ignoring it. If it had been "XML is not the Holy Grail of
> eCommerce" I suppose I wouldn't have been so irritated ... but then again
I
> wouldn't have bothered reading it.
>
> But I'm truly curious -- does the "real world" think of "XML" as a vehicle
> for e-commerce rather than a markup technology? The only way I can
reconcile
> the article in question with the reality I understand is if "XML" means
"the
> one true universal data format that supposedly allows automatic
> interoperability."  The point that "you live by the hype, you die by the
> hype" is well taken, but I don't thing ANYONE hyped XML to the point that
> the article implies.
>
>
>
>
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