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On Friday, October 12, 2001 8:08 AM, David Lyon wrote: > > Since XML 1.0 has been with us for around 4 years, it seems > to me that it may well be time that some specifications for version 2.0 start > to take place. > I'm sure there's a logical reason for this opinion, but I cannot seem to come up with one. Just because something is mature doesn't mean its time for an upgrade. > Back to business though, I've spoken with a lot of business > users and they are saying that they would like a more lightweight, faster > and smaller beast than XML Version 1.0 has become. > XML Version 1.0 hasn't changed (aside from some errata corrections) since February 1998. How has it become such a big beast? > Reliability and interoperability have proved problems in the > eyes of some people also. Many of these issues could be resolved in version 2.0. > XML is not a protocol - it has nothing to do with reliability. XML is, obviously, quite interoperable. > I'm interested in hearing from anybody with an interest in > working on the XML 2.0 specification as well as those who may be interested in > sponsoring the efforts. The closest thing to another version of XML these days might be Blueberry [1]. Blueberry intends to provide broader Unicode support. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-blueberry-req
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