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RE: Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention

• To: "Michael Champion" <michaelc.champion@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:09:20 -0800
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• Thread-topic: Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention

> not bother with the Atom format standard  since the RSS mess is ugly
> but under control; rather focus on an Atom API standard, where worse
> is definitely NOT better.

Yes.  And to say that XML's success is a prescription for how to "fix"
RSS is a bit ironic.  RSS is the most successful application of XML to
date, and is still one of the most visible examples that one can hold
out to a non-geek to explain why XML is successful.

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