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>>Those who think it can be done without namespaces and schemas are the ones putting the ring on their relationships customers I think it can be done without XML, after all, until the late 90s there was no such thing as XML. Somehow my emailer and yours can communicate with each other. Further, I was able to switch from Eudora to Outlook Express. The only problem was that I could never figure out how to move my archives into Outlook Express. It's possible that there's a way to do it, and if there is, I'm pretty sure XML wouldn't be involved, and certainly not namespaces or schema. Another case in point. Up until a few months ago I kept my calendar on a big web portal. It was great because I could access it from the road, and people who work for me could edit my schedule. But one day I went to my calendar and it had been wiped out. No past, no future. And I didn't have a copy of the calendar, so it was gone, completely. No help from the service operator. One of these days the users are going to figure out that we, as an industry, did nothing to protect their data. This is the kind of stuff XML should be doing now. What are we waiting for? Dave
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