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> XML's familiarity, ubiquity, low cost, and the assistance of
> Moore's Law make objections concerning its design point, its inefficiency,
> and the extra steps needed to encode arbitrary data more or less moot.
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In honor of the popular Moore's Law, I propose:
Fat Albert's Theorem
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The number of XML-based grammars
will double every 18 months.
Mushmouth's Corollary
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Only 1 out of every 10 XML-based grammars
will ever be adopted by people other
than the designers of the grammar.
Weird Harold's Corollary
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There is a direct correlation between the size of
the DTD (or Schema) for an XML-based grammar
and the number of participants in the design.
References to statistical evidence (pro and con) happily solicited...
Regards,
Ramin
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