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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > Maybe it's time for these two groups to go their separate ways. XML 1.0 itself, in my view, already gave the 'decorators' too many features, and we've been cursed with odd warning labels (think external subsets) ever since. > > Maybe we should look at XML 1.0 as a shared foundation, but not expect XML itself to be a solution. It's a starting point, both for people who want less and people who want more, a compromise that worked very well for a time but can't last forever. > > I know that there are those who want XML kept as monolithic as possible, a shared set of tools which can be applied neatly in every situation. The tools we have, however, aren't monolithic, aren't even necessarily interoperable, and give different groups of people very different problems. > > I think markup would survive such a fragmentations, and survive usefully. It already does. I see the state of things as being similar to the problem of Java the Language vs. Java the Platform. The Java language is simple, and approachable. The JDK 1.0 was a minimal runtime library for doing what one absolutely needed to with the Java language. Since then, Sun's "Java Platform" grew. It's now a monster, where a lot of the useful features of the original runtime are there, but are increasingly difficult to find in the haystack of niceties. Unfortunately, because Java is a proprietary offering, you can't just extract the minimalist's version (unless you're Microsoft, of course... in which case you call it C#). At least in the case of XML, there's no proprietary hold over the technology, and the boundaries between XML 1.0 and everything else in the 'XML Platform' aren't yet sufficiently blurred that it can't easily be done. -- Tom
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