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RE: Why 90 percent of XML standards will fail

• From: Don Park <donpark@d...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:33:11 -0800

> Supposed to be on ZDNet somewhere, but I saw it on Yahoo.  The guy's
> right, of course, but remember Theodore Sturgeon's Law of Popular Art
> Forms, which extends nicely to XML (or any other) standards; it says:
> 
>  "95% of everything is crap".

I am optimistic that the quality of crap will improve over time, however
I am concerned that previous trend toward monolithic craps is being
replaced with trend toward constellations of inter-dependent craps.

Don Park
Docuverse

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