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True, but timing has a lot to do with when something takes off like a rocket. The momentum to get XML 1.0 done was built up over a period of time among people who well understood what SGML did and mostly were learning hypertext and others who knew both but had to wait until the momentum was there, then had to ditch well-developed work to ride the wave. It is not unlike what is about to happen in VRML and probably will happen as XMI, RDF and other SemanticWebish things battle for position. Someone eventually figures out the lowest common denominator and does that, gives it to the unwashed, then all of the former scoundrels and rebels find themselves being the "establishment" defending the status quo. Simple comparisons of XML 1.0 and XML Schemas origins just don't work for making predictions. XML Schemas ARE tough to do for lots of reasons, some having nothing to do with the language design itself. Yet, schemas are workable expressions for contract communications and I think they have a purpose there. This *will* be an interesting test of W3C clout. For something to take off, the market has to be ready for it and some niche community has to have it ready. See Von Braun and the Moon Race. See SGML and the WWW. In both cases, a niche group had a technology that a public group needed right when it was needed. Chasm crossing requires bridge builders who first know how to descend and climb cliffs with heavy loads on their backs. They don't credit the bridge designer; they credit the senator who got the funding. "Eat a peach" as the poet wrote. The danger for schemas? In my opinion, stated before, the more features one adds to make a data object declaration language work or feel like an object-oriented programming language, the more one has screwed the markup pooch. Leave programming to programming languages. Keep semantics OUT of the markup. But I welcome the announcement. It is time to do some work in non-W3C, non-standard, just business domains and we needed this piece. "Thanks for all the fish." Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:56 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: XML Schema becomes a W3C Recommendation I wrote: >XML 1.0 wasn't all about jettisoning features, and it took off like a rocket. Bah. Should have been: XML 1.0 was all about jettisoning features, and it took off like a rocket.
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