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Re: XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut

• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:09:56 -0700

> > But what I'd really want is the nearest NON-CHAIN store.
> > Products funneling me exclusively to BigCo products are not
> > in the interest of this consumer (or, arguably, most of them).
> 
> This reminds me a bit of my early hopes for XML.  It looked like a cool
> way to create tools which were useful, small, and ubiquitous.

It is!  Just that's not what people have (until recently) been getting
paid to build.

> Instead, a lot of the XML out there is still hulking, enormous, and used
> only as bridges between particular systems.

It's a sign that lots of hulking/enormous systems are getting
brought onto the web, and they've desperately been needing
tools that were useful and ubiquitous.  It's the "small" that's
been lacking, for various reasons ...

> Win some, lose some.  

Two out of three ain't bad ... it's a win in most games!

- Dave

• References:
  • Murphy on XML
    • From: Nalini Jensen <njensen@v...>
  • XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut
    • From: David Lyon <david@g...>
  • Re: XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut
    • From: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
  • Re: XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut
    • From: Francis Norton <francis@r...>
  • Re: XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut
    • From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
  • Re: XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

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