But you all know this :-)
lisa
David Megginson wrote:
>
> Simon St.Laurent writes:
>
> > Still, could somebody slow this stuff down so that XML can have a
> > tiny chance to grow? We're not even at the first round of browser
> > implementations and already it looks like XML is attempting
> > self-immolation at the shrine of complexity. The specs are doing
> > too many things in too many places.
>
> This is progress: it took SGML over a decade to get this complicated.
>
> More seriously, if (as -- I think -- Tim Bray has suggested), XML is
> the new ASCII, then it is perfectly acceptable for people to
> standardise special uses of it. ASCII is not more complicated because
> C++ programs can be written using it, nor does the complexity of the
> ANSI C++ spec make ASCII any harder.
>
> What frightens me is the danger that some people might forget about
> layering and try to overload the XML core. XML 1.0 has some warts,
> but in general, it's beautifully simple. I have no objection to
> seeing RDF, DCD, Namespaces, etc. built *on top of* XML, but I don't
> want to see them built *into* XML -- imagine if every program that
> worked with ASCII had to be able to parse C++ as well, or if every IP
> router had to know about HTTP!
>
> In other words, don't fight the new standards -- they will live or die
> on their own (the market will probably kill about 80 per cent of them
> fairly quickly: even the power of Microsoft couldn't save CDF) -- but
> stand ready to bar the door if any of them gets too close.
>
> All the best,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Megginson david@megginson.com
> http://www.megginson.com/
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