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• Subject: RE: "In hot summer have I great rejoicing/When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace"
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 00:06:35 +0200
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I think
>there is a serious point behind that bit of levity: all the might
>and magic of XML for structured records processing can be achieved
>in any other format as long as you have an underlying data model
>and a set of naming conventions.  This includes linking,
>transforms, and even RDF-type things.

Yep, and you're right to point it out - it's all too easy to forget.

>In the allegory you're trying to fill out, the massed Troubadour
>armies include the bearers of the following standards:
>
>"XML has mindshare: let's use it to forge interop between tools,
>regardless of the mutation to XML itself"
>"XML has mindshare and works well with the Web: let's use it forge
>peace between the Microsoft and the ABM distributed programming
>clique, regardless of the mutation to XML itself"
>"XML is just text: layer everything else or leave it alone".

Nicely put. Expressed like this the 3rd flag looks the nobler.

>Derek Denny-Brown sued for peace in Provençe.  I say: bah!  To
>battle: no one profits through such an ugly peace.

Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife!

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