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abcoatesecure-xmldev@y... wrote: >Beyond that, there is only one similarly strong brand, >and that is Apache. Developers can usually make a >case to use the latest Xerces or Xalan because the >Apache name is so strong. Xerces supports DOM, not >JDOM nor XDOM, and that is what it comes down to. > > I wonder whether there is room for a non-consortium consortium: a brand for independent developers that is driven by optimal technical or contrarian motivations rather than platform considerations? SAX and EXSLT are two examples of solid and workable APIs that did not come out of a platform-vendor or its proxy. (Indeed this neutrality probably helped their success.) I know that Sun (eg through javadesktop) promotes non-Sun open source, and that IBM has Apache (which really is a platform) and that MS has its various initiatives to support open source on .NET. And open source has several other platform brands (GNU, GTK, Linux etc) But what brand is available for projects that are non-, cross- or anti-platform? People are fixated that standardization means unification: that there should only be one way to do something ever standardized. But is the Java world really worse off with Eclipse using SWT and Java supporting Swing? Is the world really worse off that MS has Win32 and .NET? Is the world really worse off that there is HTML and PDF? Or rather HTML and XHTML? (Now I don't see that there is much need for two standards where one is a spoiler, you saying tomato when I say tomato. Different issue.) However just because two technologies largely overlap is surely no reason to deprecate one: DOM/JDOM/XOM do the same things perhaps but approach the problem from different angles. In the meantime, if Apache is the only brand at the moment, is the answer for Elliotte to move XOM to Apache? Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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