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Note to Cathleen Moore: A responsible journalist always appends the substring "du jour" whenever a Micro$oftie uses the substring "vision" <lol> </pff> -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:00 AM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: sense on XML from MS I don't normally quote Microsoft architects, nor do I often find InfoWorld that exciting lately, but there's an article there that's really got me thinking: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/10/020410hnctohailstorm.x ml Just a few choice bits: -------------------------- He also encouraged attendees to consider when building Web services whether to program to an object-centric or XML-centric model. One pitfall to look out for in the object-centric path is how to obtain extensibility when you are programming at a high level, he said.... The primary skill a workforce needs is a deep understanding of XML, particularly name spaces and versioning. "The big thing we had to deal with [at Microsoft] was learning and embracing XML," Lucovsky said. "XML is more difficult than people think." --------------------------- It echoes a lot of what we say here, I guess, but it makes some points that aren't very often heard in the latest wave of Web Services hype. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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