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At 09:46 5/10/1998 , you wrote: | "Simon St.Laurent" wrote: | > | > While it might not make sense to create the COM object, it might make a lot | > of sense to build supporting structures for VB, Delphi, PowerBuilder, and | > whatever other tool you like to work with. | | Wouldn't VB, Delphi, PowerBuilder etc. users use Microsoft's COM object | parser? People do not, as an analogy, buy ".ini parsing libraries" for | these platforms. They use thin layers over the Microsoft-provided APIs. I think I'll jump on this, the second reference, to Microsoft's promised COM object. A couple of points: * So we want XML to be tied to the great monopoly? But, more practically: * When is this going to be delivered? * Will it work on NT 4/Windows 3.11/etc? * Will it be tied to IE? If I have to say to my customers, you need to install IE 6 in order to use XML, then that scares me. Shouldn't it scare you? So far, Microsoft placed a lot of functionality in IE, as part of it's plan to ensure market domination for it's browser. In any case, shouldn't we have more than one parser available? Or do we have all our eggs in the one basket? And finally, unless it is already in the IE 5 betas that are available, we will be waiting until NT 5 (year 2000), or IE 6 (?). Cheers, J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s... "Beyond the Idea" ACN 081 019 623 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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