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| The requirement of standard DTDs by all vendors and participants | presumes that these are adequate to satisfy the differentiation needs | of the various participants. "Brand equity" is not sufficient | differentiation. Rather, one company may use more detailed | characteristics than another company in order to differentiate their | products. I think you're missing the point. What I as a consumer want to be able to do is quite simple. I want to be able to say, "Hey, I need a new jacket," sit down at my computer, call up my find-a-product robot, enter my jacket parameters, and then come back a while later to find all the jackets that fit those parameters offered by all the vendors whose products I'm interested in considering. If the catalog scheme isn't standardized enough to support this, then I as a consumer am not interested in using it. If one of the vendors differentiates itself by adopting a scheme of data representation that doesn't allow this kind of transparent direct comparison, then it differentiates itself right out of the class of vendors I'm interested in, because if all it's giving me is the ability to cruise its catalog in isolation, I can get the same functionality from the printed version; it no longer participates in a way that allows the net to add value to me as a consumer. I'm not denying that vendors will want to differentiate their offerings, but if they can't do it in a way that supports detailed direct comparisons based on the differentia that I am interested in *as a consumer* then they are simply not in the game at all. Jon xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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