Re: XML-DEV motives (was Re: XML IDL and XML RPC)

Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@ifi.uio.no)
26 Sep 1998 10:24:09 +0100


* Peter Murray-Rust
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| What I think we really need for XML is an enthusiast community
| beyond the commercial developers. There should be much more academic
| involvement (especially grad students). There are wonderful projects
| simply crying out to be hacked. I've urged this several times. How
| can we reach them?

It may comfort you to know that at least in Norway this seems to be
happening now. Both the University of Troms=F8 and NTNU in Trondheim
have started academic projects where students investigate XML in
various ways.

>From what I can gather, both projects are for undergraduates, but
hopefully this is just the beginning.

--Lars M.