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At 09:48 AM 9/25/00 -0700, Lisa Rein wrote: >This one has my vote: > >http://www.business2.com/content/magazine/breakthrough/2000/09/15/18549 > >it's from this months Business 2.0. And it's written by a professor of >new media at hunter college in NY. Which shows that even professors >sometimes don't do their homework. I guess this guy thought he was so >smart, he didn't need to be bothered with the facts. While this article is certainly pouring water on the hype, I'm not clear where you think Clay Shirky's lost track of the facts. I really like hearing that: >XML does not mean less pain. It does not remove the >pain of having to describe your data; it simply front-loads the pain where >it?s easier to see and deal with. And also that: >Interoperability isn?t an engineering issue, it?s a >business issue. I'd appreciate hearing which facts you think he got wrong. I don't think he sees XML as a magic bullet, and as much as I love XML, I think he's right on that count. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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