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Tim Bray <tbray@t...> writes: > Supposed to be on ZDNet somewhere, but I saw it on Yahoo. The guy's > right, of course, but remember Theodore Sturgeon's Law of Popular Art > Forms, which extends nicely to XML (or any other) standards; it says: > > "95% of everything is crap". > > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010226/tc/why_90_percent_of_xml_standards_will_fail_1.html Seems like another article of the sort intended mostly to provoke responses: lots of general opinions, little specific information to support them, and nothing about which specific standards he feels are flawed and/or doomed to failure. And to me at least, the following bits seem as provocative as the title. A standards organization has to align with the real strategic imperatives of major companies if it hopes to see useful implementations of its work. I see very little of this in the XML efforts underway. [...] There are only two abiding sources of XML standards. The first is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [...] The second source is credible vendor that creates publicly available XML formats and protocols as part of meaningful products. Ariba and Microsoft are in this category at the moment. [...] the net effect of XML standards has been to slow adoption of XML products and technology.
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