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• To: 'Eric van der Vlist' <vdv@d...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Sky is falling again...
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:11:06 -0500

C'est vrai, but that's life with bosses.  They 
become entangled in the day to day befuddlements 
of entranced employees and lose their technical 
edge. Yet like most mammal brains, repeat any 
message often enough and with similar contents, 
and they will accept it as fact.  That's the 
way the web was won.

The boss takes two of his most trusted allies 
who can program and sets them to building a 
small system.  Then he wants them to be the 
gurus for everyone else.  Anyone care to hazzard 
a guess on how well that works?

Why does everyone want a new syntax?  

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...]

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:28, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> Anyone:  your boss confidently tells you that XML is to be the 
> cornerstone of all future work in your company.  Now, in a low 
> voice he asks you, "How do we get started?"
> 
> What do you tell him?

I have no boss so I can't be sure, but what I'd suggest looking for a
new job since, obviously, your boss is hipe driven and doesn't
understand what XML is about :-) ...

BTW, have you noticed that yet another XML spec is defining a non XML
syntax?

http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/ltm-1.3-prop.html

Eric 
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