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Re: Even if you're not ... was If you're going to the W3C meet

• To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Even if you're not ... was If you're going to the W3C meeting in March
• From: Chris Burdess <dog@b...>
• Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:05:44 +0000
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Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Kurt Cagle wrote:
>> I've also found that many employers have stopped listing XML in their
>> advertisements, not because they don't need that skill, but because
>> they assume that working with XML is something that you should just
>> know if you work with most computer languages.
>
> These employers may be overly optimistic. Last night I gave an 
> advanced XML presentation to a large audience of uber-geek Linux 
> folks. Based on post-talk discussion, I suspect only about 30-40% were 
> reasonably conversant with XML prior to that evening. If I'd realized 
> that in advance I would have pitched the talk at a slightly lower 
> level. It's certainly true that XML is more broadly understood in the 
> community than it was five years ago. However, I don't think it's yet 
> reached the level of ubiquity of C or Java.

A quick search of a typical job search engine 
(http://www.jobserve.com/) reveals:

"xml": 1880 matching jobs
"java": 3467 matching jobs
"c": 1244 matching jobs
-- 
Chris Burdess

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  • Re: Even if you're not ... was If you're going to the W3C meeting in March
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  • Re: Even if you're not ... was If you're going to the W3Cmeeting in March
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