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 Arjun Ray writes: > Only if they want to build information systems, which however they > don't. Some do, some don't. XML folks have done a poor job (IMHO) in making much of a case even with people whose content management systems are well past the line as reasonable candidate for information systems. Tools like Cocoon and AxKit give me some hope in that department. More generally, I think it's fair to say that lots of information-systems builders found themselves on the street as browser-based approaches blew the short-term pricing doors off the client-server market. Client-serverish approaches seem to be resurfacing in Web Services kind of stuff, but I see no sign that that end of the market has learned very much from the Web experience. Instead of integrating richer information with the Web approach, we're just getting RPC and basic messaging redux with an extra dose of marketing. But maybe there's an information system there... > "The" web is about vanity and brochureware. Why should that change? Given that attitude, I would not expect change any time soon. Fortunately, I don't think your description applies to significant parts of the Web ecosystem, especially the application-building end. > | Perhaps XML would be wise to take a similar approach; > > XML has been trying, and failing. More precisely, the W3C has been trying, unable to tame its larger ambitions, and failing. ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether 
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