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 It is one thing to be an XML consultant. It can be quite another to be an XML application implementor. You may be creating standards. Standards creation is always a *hopeful* activity. Others are simply coming up with a tag set for their software, maybe a few others, to consume. From time to time, they might bother to lookup what others in their industry are doing and adopt some tags from them. If they are very careful, they will even use the namespaces to tell you where they borrowed them. Somehow you simply must come to grips with the fact that not everyone working with XML is creating a standard or intends to use the web for more than plumbing if at all. Global interoperation of their application based on exposing their semantics to competitors eliminates their market. They intend to compete, not comply. len From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Sounds like even more wishful thinking. > > The main point of competition is now not in > the markup languages, but in the system > libraries from which we build the components. > Most of us build software; XML tag design > is an incidental activity. The creation of standards is an incidental activity? I don't really know how to respond to that. It sort of goes against everything I've observed over the last couple of decades so perhaps it isn't worth trying to bridge the gap. Paul Prescod 
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