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> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Prescod [SMTP:paul@p...] > > [someone sent me an email to say that they got six of my last post... > did anyone else have that problem?] > The strange thing is I also got 7 of Simon's replies, but everything since has been fine. Quite ironic that you mention parsing e-mail below, when I bet this is the fault of our exchange gateway... > "Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > ... > > There are thousands, if not millions, of possibilities that XML enables. > > This is where we disagree. I don't think you can name even one. XML does > not enable new applications in the sense that Java made Tic-Tac-Toe > possible. XML just makes them more affordable by sharing development and > R&D costs through standardized interchange. It is no coincidence that for > most of the new XML-based languages being created there was a non-XML > equivalent before. > I think the problem is that XML on the web (specifically in the browser) isn't there yet. For example, prior to Java it was also possible to do Tic-Tac-Toe (or "Noughts and Crosses" as we call it in England) as a Plugin, and you could do the legwork of doing 2 plugins if you wanted to support both IE and Netscape. Java changed that. What XML in the browser will give us is this sort of benefit (and I don't mean WriteOnceRunEverywhere) - it will reduce the amount of code needed to do things like search product catalogues, import external data, etc. Yes, it's still plumbing in a way, the difference might just be in time to market though. Got XML, got XSL - you can display it. This is a whole lot simpler than a backend connected to a database that creates HTML. Matt. 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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