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 On 4/10/13 2:11 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote: > Of course the value of things we use and do should be challenged but > here there appears to be alot of work to do before we can say that the > X in this case can substitute for Y. There is indeed a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, schema-based approaches dominated markup conversation early and have rarely been challenged with alternatives. I'm happy that these threads have turned up some people who use markup in ways that run counter to the dominant approach. Unfortunately, it's painfully clear to me - because I mostly travel in circles where XML is considered a relic - that the more typical response to the dogma of schemas has simply been to leave XML behind. I would like XML to have a future. I do find it easier to work with this style of markup than with the compressed forms typical of, for example, JSON. XML has much going for it, in particular a better understanding of (and tools for) transformation than its competing communities. If we want XML to grow, though, we're going to have to incinerate our allegiance to schemas, and start valuing flexibility. I recognize that most of those who are left in XML work for organizations in which the very brittleness of schema-based development is considered a plus rather than a minus, and that for the most part those organizations don't give a damn about whether XML grows or not. It works for them, right? Hence this conversation. I think XML has a bright future if we can develop practices for it that appeal to organizations very different from yours. Otherwise, it will stagnate and rot, as it has done for much of the past decade. So far, I have to say that this conversation is going far better than I expected. The resistance I expected is present, of course, but as hammer and anvil meet we're generating more than just noise. Something new is emerging from the forge. Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/ 
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