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RE: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)

• To: "'Arjun Ray'" <aray@n...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:45:00 -0600
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Arjun Ray [mailto:aray@n...] wrote:

> | There were and are plenty of language-specific APIs for SGML/XML
> | processing, and none of them need to interoperate with each other.
> | This isn't something that the W3C needs to standardize IMO.
> 
> I agree.  The formlization of an infoset spec is not only enough, 
> it makes DOM irrelevant.


+1. Standardizing APIs across languages does nothing but make them
harder for everyone to use. It seems that some of today's most
commonly-used and popular APIs have stayed as far from standardization
as possible. 

One of the keys to XML's success is that it doesn't enforce a
programming model or specific API. 


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