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Paul Prescod wrote: > Because XML alone won't improve anything significantly. At best it can > save money. I suppose this depends on whether "XML" means strictly the language (in which case I agree) or the use of the language (in which case I disagree strongly). Personally, I think it's meaningless to separate the two. For example, the Internet existed before the Web did and I suspect everything that is possible over the Web today was possible before it existed -- we could just as well have FTP'ed SGML files back and forth. The Web made Web-like stuff easy, it caught the public's imagination, and off we went. Similarly, we can probably do everything that is possible with XML without XML, but that's largely irrelevant. We live in a world filled with humans -- not exactly the most rational species ever to roam the earth -- and discussing technology without discussing ease of use, marketing strategies, development costs, fad factors, and so on is a waste of time if you're t rying to figure out where the future lies. I think XML has a great chance to change the world in the same way the Web did simply because it gives us a standard data transport that is likely to be widely accepted. And that acceptance is likely to inspire a whole lot of applications that are possible today, but aren't being written for all of the human, not technical, reasons. -- Ron Bourret 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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