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Title: RE: almost four years ago.... Nope. The vendors who bought it did.
XML is
not a miracle. It was the selling
of
SGML to those who didn't like SGML
because those who sold it to them told
them
not to, thus neatly enabling a private
consortium to take control of the intellectual
property of the International Standards Organization
and
privatize the ownership of it.
XML
Doesn't Do Anything. That is rule
number
1. Rule number 2 is that to do
anything with XML, you need a domain
that
exists, something to mark up. It needs
no new
universes, no new domains,
just
information you put your NamespaceURI
stake
in and claim like public lands in the Oklahoma
land
rush. Then you code handlers.
The
greed that drove XML into the public consciousness
died
with the dot.bomb at the cost of a few trillion invested
and
now vapor fading like the lights in a rolling
blackout.
XML is about syntax. So is CSV. The magic is in the head of the developer. The
X is just something a filter stores when
looking
for three in a
row.
Len
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