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Forwarded on behalf of Ari Krupnikov -------------------------------------------------------------------- For some reason, I have a feeling that the unjustifiable complexity of the later XML specs is not altogether random and goes beyond the Second System Effect [0] mentioned in [1]. When the original XML 1.0 Rec came out, it was (almost) simple enough for any one developer or a small team to implement correctly. A parser by a team of hobbyists working in their spare time could be every bit as good as Microsoft's, IBM's or Oracle's; indeed, the first XML years saw a plentiful crop of parsers. This is in sharp contrast to, say, the number of W3C Schema validatiors - I am only aware of one not written by a major vendor, and that one is by the Rec editor. In a war of attrition, it pays to escalate if you have the resources to ride it out. What you want to do is not so much build a better mousetrap as have your opponents spend resources they don't have. It doesn't matter if your SDI really works as long as you can bankrupt the other guy as he's trying to keep up. So the big fish rode out DOM Level 2. Some will ride out W3C Schema. Those left standing will try XML Query. And then the winner will throw away the specs it used to win the battle. As soon as you've won your war of attrition, you have no use for the very instrument you used to win it. Ari. [0] ISBN:0201835959 [1] http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200206/msg00076.html -------- End of forwarded message --------
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