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1/13/2002 5:02:56 PM, "Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI" <jens.jakob.andersen@p...> wrote: > >I was at a web-developer meeting with 5 dot-com survivors (none got rich, real survivors!), and we talked about XML. Did they have to exchange data with anyone else or import data from a shifting set of applications? If you are master of your own destiny and have already built your infrastructure, you probably have little need for XML. > suddenly everybody had to code and code and code, since > suddenly XML shows all that it is lacking. I'd be very interested to know what was lacking. I thought the whole point of all the stuff that has been piled onto XML in the last couple of years was to reduce the amount of procedural code that had to be written to validate, transform, display, and query XML, but it would be very useful to get a breakdown of where that had to be supplemented, worked around, etc. > >1. Is XML allready dead or dying? I doubt it ... Remember that XML is all about improving the "plumbing" of Web applications; it makes the boring stuff easier and cheaper but doesn't do a whole lot for the interesting parts of a development project. I'm very glad that I can buy standardized pipe and connections and hire people who are certified as knowing how to use it, even though it takes a lot of additional work to make the plumbing supplies do anything useful.
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