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Elliotte Harold wrote: > What do people think is going to happen in 2007 in XML? What are we > going to talk about for the next 12 months? Which new technologies are > going to birth industries? Which ones are going to flop? What are your > predictions? Criswell predicts! (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Criswell) Here are five predictions: they are not tsunamis but more like the slow but inexorable sea-level changes from global warming. *> I think 2007 will see XPath-based type-binding systems becoming a common part of the furniture. It uses an existing, standard technology and is modest and targeted in its goals: good signs for viral, grassroots acceptability. Examples of systems that do this include XForms, MicroSoft's OOXML, and we are looking at adding it to ISO Schematron too. Crystal-balling, by end of 2007, I wouldn't be surprised if a tool to present the equivalent XPath to locate an XSD particle came out; this would allow people who define their systems using a grammar to implement type-aware solutions using XPath technology rather than PSVI (grammar-checked) technology. Whether this ultimately leads to the marginalization of XSD Structures or re-invigorates it, who knows? *> 2007 will also see more awareness by software architects for the need/usefulness/wisdom of content inspection by business firewalls. They will start to put these firewalls in as a standard part of the design rather than as an add-on. Especially as more AJAX or XForms transactions allows consortium- or association-defined documents, not backend-to-backend but agent-to-broker, broker-to-supplier, and even agent-to-supplier transactions. Systems will be architected so that each class of client, broker and supplier has a custom business-rules checking stage. (The Lloyd's London Markets is a good example of this.) *> Independently, but with the same effect, there will be an increase in interest in XML Governance from upper management: they will increasingly want lower management to be able to prove with metrics and standard procedures that adequate QA and QC systems are in place. This will be a maturity issue: fresh and chaotic and growing companies will not adopt it as much as organizations with established markets, expertise and operations. *> My ISO Schematron (now out in pre-beta) will be finally completed this month, and that will allow more government and consortia to roll out Schematron-based solutions and standards in 2007. I expect to see more Schematron-based pilot projects. *> I expect more governments as well as organizations with archiving requirements will ban binary and non-ISO-standard formats: a hierarchy of ISO HTML (really W3C XHTML), ISO ODF, ISO OOXML and ISO PDF will be established by order of preference/interoperability/fidelity. So archiving organizations would start accepting OOXML and updating their old binary files to OOXML, while inter-office documents and tenders will be required to use ODF, for example. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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