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RE: Joint ownership of the data-dataContainer combination

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• Subject: RE: Joint ownership of the data-dataContainer combination
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:46:09 -0400
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dareo@m... (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
>What does this entire thread have to do with XML? 

A lot, actually.  One of the key promises XML made was easy access to
information, with less if not no vendor lock-in.

If you take Frank's reading about avoiding the dangerous word
"ownership" and simply talk about the difficulties of accessing
information you've created with a given tool using a different tool set,
there's plenty here to think about, for both vendors and consumers.

There are other approaches beside XML you can use, notably POI (Poor
Obfuscation Implementation) - http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/.

XML's a lot friendlier about letting you pick your own toolkit, of
course.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org

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