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> Maybe I'm naive, but something that is pretty much > abhorred by end users and only grudgingly tolerated by implementers > isn't going to have a lot of friends when a simpler, cheaper [in real > human time if not dollar cost] alternative that hits its 80/20 point > comes along. All precedents suggest that once a technology is entrenched, it only gets displaced if (a) there are important jobs that it can't do, or (b) there is a trusted alternative that is 1000% better. With XML, there's not the slightest evidence that either of these events is imminent. Dammit, we're still sending email in ASCII... Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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