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Simon, I've been trying to follow those XSL debates and my eyes glaze over. I come from such a different world! To me that's the charm of XML, the people it brings together. I can get a passionate appraisal from Tim Bray that opens my eyes only to the fact that we don't speak the same language, but his words are so intriguing. You say this is a wide-ranging thread, you ain't seen nothin yet! Here goes.. One more thing to point you all to. We've been promoting XML-RPC as a way of building distributed Internet applications. This has been going on since April last year. After Allaire joined the fray, we got a lot of new support and the system has been growing. A sub-item to the XSL processor site, but a much more earthshaping trend is the support we're getting in the Java world for XML-RPC. Some of the most intersting stuff has come from people who are lurking on this list. I would be remiss if I didn't point you all to the XML-RPC site. This is growing right now, and I think it's very significant, esp in the areas we've been touching on. Here's the Java XML-RPC implementation: http://helma.at/hannes/xmlrpc/ And here's the central XML-RPC site with pointers to many of the other sites: http://www.xmlrpc.com/ And here's a DaveNet piece I wrote on Friday that explains where we're going and provides new information on how we got here: http://www.scripting.com/davenet/99/01/microsoftXmlRpc.html Read the part about XML-RPC search engines, and Microsoft and XML-RPC. I know I'm responding to a fire hose with my own fire hose. But between all these hoses I think there's something great happening. Dave At 09:35 AM 1/31/99 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >At 02:02 PM 1/31/99 +0000, Mark Birbeck wrote: >>This makes your case weaker Dave, I'm afraid, if you enlist Paul's >>'insights'. Part of his site seems ill-informed to me - criticising XSL >>for using a 'renamed JavaScript, called ECMCAScript', as if it was XSL >>that renamed it!! - and part of it sort of misses the point about what >>is so exciting about storing documents as XML. >> >>[...much about XSL and ECMAScript...] > >This thread(s) has proven more capable of shifting subjects than any I've >seen in a while - now we have someone on the list debating the ideas of >someone it's not even clear is on the list, about something that's been >fought over a few thousand times on the XSL mailing list. (And I'm saying >this as a long-time thread abuser. Apologies for the crazy-long subject >header.) > >I think at this point most folks who've encountered those discussions are >willing to acknowledge that reasonable people can disagree, even violently, >about most anything involving XSL, especially ECMAScript and even the need >for XSL, without it being a stain on the other ideas they support. > >These are hotly contested issues - though some people on all sides may >firmly believe themselves to be taking the 'right' approach, I don't think >opinions on XSL should be used to disqualify someone's opinions about other >aspects of XML processing. > >Simon St.Laurent >XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (March) >Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies >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...) > > 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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