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>>Why not let users experiment with that basic set of tools before we try to slap them in straitjackets? It's happening my man. Tim Bray came for a visit a couple of weeks ago. In the car, on the way to lunch, I told him that the XML 1.0 spec was working great for us. A few days before a question had come up on the XML-RPC list, and I didn't know the answer. I went to the spec, and it had the answer! That's a work that works, imho. Who knows, maybe two years from now we'll be looking for an answer and it will be in the Schema spec or whatever you guys are working on now. I'll tell you this much, at a practical level, in the real-world, XML is taking off. It's really happening. BTW, I have a master's in computer science, and a math degree in graph theory, so I know at a theoretic level, what all this stuff is about. But 20 years ago I decided to be a commercial developer, and not a theorist. So I focus entirely on the pragmatic side of these things. My take is that XML 1.0 is ready to go, it's happening in syndication/aggregation and distributed computing protocols. One man's opinion only.. Dave PS: One thing that's really needed is a *simple* spec for vector graphics. Not PDF-in-XML, just lineto, moveto, fillrect, drawstring, invertrect, penup, pendown, etc. Refer to Inside Macintosh v1.0, QuickDraw chapter. Another spec that really worked. 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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