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 I always recommend to people in seminars that they wait for (three to) five years from when a technology is introduced to when they adopt it for any mission-critical uses. XML could be used straight away because SGML was already mature. XSL could be pretty much used right away because it was DSSSL 2 with different brackets. But XML Schemas, XQuery and the capitalized Web Services systems cannot because the specifications are pioneering new ground. On that reckoning, they will only go mainstream in 2 (for WXS) to 5 (for XQuery etc) years time. By that time, the punters really will have figured out whether MS Infopath, XML databases, RDF, non-updating XQuery, etc. really provide any novelty or advantage. When the XML Schemas spec was delayed, I remember someone claiming that it was responsible for popping the .COM bubble, because so many companies had based their optimistic claims on piggybacking on the Schema-lead brave new world. How bogus can you get? The idea that the world is full of CIOs ready to throw away all their existing systems in favour of unproven or imature new technologies, however well-thought-out or conquering, is mad. Perhaps the big initial interest in XML was not the sign of a new permanent wave, but a dam bursting for people as something fairly fundamental (exchanging trees in text) suddenly became available. So if there is diminished interest, that probably shows that people are being prudent, and waiting for implementations to mature. Maybe this shows another fallacy of the .COM idea that companies should expect expotential growth: prudence by users will delay the takeoff. But it doesn't show that the technologies have failed: we need to be realistic and even encouraging of the prudence of adopters. If I think about the books I regularly use, I come up with: * O'Reilly's XML Pocket Reference or the XPath/Xpointer book * O'Reilly's CJKV Information processing by Ken Lunde * Manning's Swing book * O'Reilly's SAX 2 book * Unicode standard and pretty much all the rest is online. Cheers Rick Jelliffe 
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