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Dean Roddey wrote: > I have to agree with your sentiments in many ways. Basically there is always a > tendency towards > seeing everything as a nail when you just have a hammer (witness the Java > phenomenon.) I believe > that overselling any technology is probably a bad thing and I think that XML is > being way oversold > in some cases (in many cases for no other reason than to increase a products > 'buzz word quotient'). On the other hand, part of the buzz generated by a "new technology? comes from being able to look at stubborn technical challenges (e.g., persistence, independence, naming, information sharing, reuse, etc.) in a brand new way. As evidenced by some of the discussions here, I think this is a healthy, productive and necessary process; yielding a continuous flow of new (though incomplete) insights into these challenges. I agree that there?s a real danger of undermining an effort by over-hyping it. At the same time, I believe that the process of rethinking old problems from new perspectives (and based upon novel opportunities) is critical to ongoing innovation. Perhaps this is not the correct forum for doing this (I'm new to the group, too); and obviously these considerations need to be carefully balanced. By the way, where can I get my copy of CXML? :-) Norm Wilson NorKen Technologies nwilson@p... http://www.programmar.com 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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