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Kendall Grant Clark has published a funny satire of the three myths of XML at www.xml.com this week. It makes good reading. I wonder how many still subscribe to such myths and why. It appears to me that the selling of the web, the urge to get the publicity and seize the domain before the results are ready have as much to do with this as any particular quality of XML. On the other hand, very large government pipelines of data aggregation do exist that would benefit enormously from using XML (cheaper and tends toward winnowing out duplication). As said in the past, the way of markup is as powerful if not more powerful than the actual technology but you have to do a lot of this to understand the obvious. It is the quality of the information domain (enough similarity to enable a coherent schema that can be shared) that determines if it succeeds. I can write a schema for you cat but who will you share that with? XML isn't magic. It is a computer science. Getting people to agree to use the agreements, that's magick. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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