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Re: XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:19:00 -0400

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 13:52, David Brownell wrote: 
> But what I'd really want is the nearest NON-CHAIN store.
> Products funneling me exclusively to BigCo products are not
> in the interest of this consumer (or, arguably, most of them).

This reminds me a bit of my early hopes for XML.  It looked like a cool
way to create tools which were useful, small, and ubiquitous.

Instead, a lot of the XML out there is still hulking, enormous, and used
only as bridges between particular systems.

Win some, lose some.  

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue

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