[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: The relentless march of abstraction (fwd)
Dave Winer scripsit: > Just the first few paragraphs opened my eyes to where the process is going > with XML. I never understood what "infoset" was all about. Now that I do, Henry is a fine fellow who has done much good work. His view of the Infoset is not the only view, nor is this potted summary (IMHO) a fair representation of even Henry's view, much less the total view. (I speak as an editor of the Infoset, but not officially for the Core WG.) > There will be adoption where [XML is] as easy and forgiving as > HTML was in 1994. That will never happen, thanks to draconian error recovery. Hopefully XML will never become such a mess as HTML has become, either. > The relentless march to abstraction is good for keeping standards wonks > employed, but it doesn't do bupkis for interop and level playing fields and > progress towards new Pleasure Buttons For The People. (Which is why HTML was > such a breath of fresh air and so successful.) Without standards, there is no interoperability, much less a level playing field. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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