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RE: Ten years after: what are the top 5 ?

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Ken North'" <kennorth@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:27:29 +0100

> 
> > So what are the five most important XML vocabularies (those 
> having the 
> > most influence on the way we compute today)?
> 
> Michael Kay wrote:
> >> How on earth can you measure the influence of ...
> 
> Perhaps by posing a question.

Not unless you find a way of posing it to a representative sample of people.
> 
> "To what extent do developers in a certain space embrace or 
> ignore the XML vocabularies that are applicable to their 
> problem domain?"


Ah, so "we" in your question means developers? Other users don't count?

Even with that caveat, I think developers are as much affected by the
vocabulary used to submit their tax returns as by the vocabulary used to
deliver their RSS feeds.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

• References:
  • Ten years after: what are the top 5 ?
    • From: "Ken North" <kennorth@s...>
  • RE: Ten years after: what are the top 5 ?
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • Re: Ten years after: what are the top 5 ?
    • From: "Ken North" <kennorth@s...>