• To: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Subject: Re: Iceberg development (was Re: maps)
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:06:54 -0700
• Cc: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,xml-dev@l..., vdv@d...
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Jeff Lowery wrote:
> How about a hybrid system? It would include a set of universal types

At some point in late 1996, at an XML Working Group phone call, someone 
piped up "er, shouldn't we do an API?"  James Clark said "that wouldn't 
make any sense, there's no single API that's going to meet everyone's 
needs for something as generic as XML."  Everyone said "OK, right".

Five years later I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that conclusion 
was wrong.

Which is to say, there's nothing wrong with inventing new XML APIs, go 
to it, just don't fool yourself that there's One True API out there 
waiting to be found.  Presumably we can end up with a number of APIs 
that is greater than one and smaller than the total number of 
applications.  -Tim

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