[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Request for a poll: (was RE: Datatypes vs anarchy)
I'd be happy to contribute to the poll. I'm holding off on that, though, to see if that web-based questionaire is put up (rather than shower the list with my response). I thought I'd respond on a more general note, though. I think a great deal of the controversy and differing opinions is due to people using XML in very different ways toward very different ends. In a sense, this is a great testament to the flexibility and power of XML. Where we've gone wrong is trying to standardize too much. XML Schema presents, I think, an important lesson for us to learn. There was too much expectation on the part of too many people for a grand unified schema language that would support everyone's use case. Those who say the WG should go back to drawing board and come up with something that is free of controversy and appeases everyone do not have a firm grasp of reality. That is an unachievable goal. I think the WG should have tried to achieve less, but I suspect selling all of the participants on that vision would have been a hard sell. Too many parties look for a W3C spec to sanction and bless anything they would ever want to do with a schema language. I think the time has come for some of the different sub-communities within the XML community to part ways, to some degree. We need to stop looking for those grand unified specs and resign ourselves to diversity. Sometimes the fork in the road is a good thing; it means we can get on our way unimpeded instead of bickering endlessly about where we should all be headed. We are not all trying to go to the same destination. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean@d...] > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:47 AM > To: Rick Jelliffe; xml-dev > Subject: Re: Request for a poll: (was RE: Datatypes vs anarchy) > > > [Rick Jelliffe] > >Do I detect that, despite a year passing since SML managed > to divert a lot > >of high-quality people's attentions from Schemas, people are > still madly > >keen to ignore the things they can change and fart around > with things they > >cannot. > > I'm trying to understand why I am in a minority. That is my > primary motivation for seeing the results of the poll. > Many people I have total respect for do not see the problems > I see. One conjecture is that this is because they are doing > things differently and perhaps I need to change the > way I work. Another is that I am terminally stupid. > Either way, I would learn something from a poll. > > I'm going to send a follow up post with a use case > I see as common and problematic. Perhaps this > will help me to figure this all out...
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