• From: "Al B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• To: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 02:00:18 +0100 (BST)

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, David Brownell wrote:

> > Hmmm... throwing petrol onto the fire here, how do you guys feel about XML
> > schemas that feature non-XML sublanguages like XPath or the path thingies
> > in SVG? 

> I certainly see the trend to "big fat XML" as increasing
> barriers to entry for new vendors, and promoting customer
> lock-in for current vendors.  Don't you?

What do you refer to as "big fat XML", exactly? Your meaning isn't clear
to me :-)

(Then again, it is 2am here in the UK...)

ABS

-- 
                               Alaric B. Snell
 http://www.alaric-snell.com/  http://RFC.net/  http://www.warhead.org.uk/
   Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software  

• References:
  • Re: "Binary XML" proposals
    • From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>

• Prev by Date: Re: "Binary XML" proposals
• Next by Date: Re: "Binary XML" proposals
• Previous by thread: Re: "Binary XML" proposals
• Next by thread: Re: "Binary XML" proposals
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread