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 > From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@p...] >The only other possibility - which > is worse - it will be so complex that the only way to make it > work is get > all your tools from one supplier. Sadly, I agree. Theoretically, one should be able to utilize XML technologies using tools from various sources but practically, XML development is mostly divided in platform-camps: .NET, Java, etc. Much of the complexity presented as de facto is, of course, pure marketing tactics. Developers are getting used in 'easy ways' to perform complex tasks that shouldn't be that complex in the first place. Each vendor presents and handles this complexity differently. Ironically enough, one can say that "serious" XML development concludes in vendor locks. Now, before people start accusing my ignorance of the real complexities behind their systems and the problems they solve. The truth is, we create needs and problems to feed ourselves while solving them. This is valid whether you are an IT manager or shoe salesman and includes standards/platform/software development in general (the whole technology_production_line...). XML is just the latest buzz, lifting the weight of our abuse. > Also they bend XML out of shape to the point > where I for one, > hardly recognize it any more. Yes, with development and learning costs going sky-high for no real reason. Moreover, XML is often either used against the wrong problem, or badly used against the right problem. Developers are either pseudo_evangelists that present XML in a way none understands, or ignorant (on the subject) people that see it as another trendy toy they must deal with (by throwing it in somewhere). At least that's what I can see in the European market. Many exceptions exist of course; there are numerous examples of high quality, XML-related software designed and produced in Europe. But in the big picture, what I personally see is a) big vendors pushing their 'partners'/clients to produce solutions with the "new and improved" way (just like The Tommyknockers ;-) d) plain people that misunderstand -> misuse and XML technologies, tending to reproduce the effect by presenting their work like something it's not Even standardization is not something you can count on. All we can do is build things as robust as we can to make our lives easier till the next big thing. Manos 
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