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• Subject: RE: (data) medium is the message
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 12:55:40 -0400
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dpawson@n... (Dave Pawson) writes:
>If that job gets out of the 'Frank in IT' pair of hands I'll be
>impressed. GUI or nothing is my experience for those not in IT.

GUI is fine.  IMHO, XML both provides a rich foundation for the data
model behind that GUI and accessible data for people who don't want to
work with a GUI. 

To me, the exciting part of all of this is _extensible_ semantics on top
of a relatively simple fixed syntax.  A lot of people, building on past
practices, have interpreted "extensible" as "standardizable", whereas
I'd like to see us push toward "customizable".  The more you involve our
mythical Frank, the more you're likely to head down the standardizable
path, given IT departments' traditional views on customization.

It's time for me to pack up for XML Europe.  If anyone would like to
discuss these issues there, maybe we could set up a lunch table or time
in the bar. I'll be largely offline for the next week.



-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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