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On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 13:10 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > I worry less about the behaviors I haven't learned and more > about the ones I can't explain. ...In which case do we care Len? If we want (and expect) a feature, chances are we haven't had to use it yet. Just needs hunting down? > Documentation varies widely. > Given a mashup of applications from different servers and > sources, simplicity and well-documented OR STANDARD features > are the sine qua non of applications in composite. yep. > > Even if they are word processors. Need new features? Buy > new plugins. And judge the worthiness by the cost. I'd settle for that. > I don't think anyone intends to pry XML out of the developer's hands. Where it should (rightly IMHO) stay. At least I've learned that :-) > Just consider markets where the end users see a federated page of > slightly to definitely incompatible application behaviors. Data is > the least of our problems regards interoperability and the only > one that XML has a partial solution for. I'll disagree with this view Len. It's the data that matters. [Insert your own quote here] Not the (todays) app that generates it. That's the winner for XML I think. There's a slim chance it might be available to others in a couple of years time. -- Regards, Dave Pawson XSLT + Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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