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At 07:28 PM 10/6/98 +1000, James Robertson wrote: >I think I'll jump on this, the second reference, to >Microsoft's promised COM object. > >A couple of points: > >* So we want XML to be tied to the great monopoly? > >But, more practically: > >* When is this going to be delivered? > >* Will it work on NT 4/Windows 3.11/etc? > >* Will it be tied to IE? > >If I have to say to my customers, you need to >install IE 6 in order to use XML, then that >scares me. Good points, and good reasons for more folks to develop Windows-specific but non-Microsoft solutions. It sounds like the Delphi crowd is already heading this direction; maybe others will follow. Componentizing parsers and other XML tools sounds good to me, whatever platform or development environment we're talking about. Speaking of which, I'd really like to see more for my poor old Mac... someday... Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth (November) Building XML Applications (December) http://www.simonstl.com 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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