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On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:52, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > We all have passions, causes, reasonable society enhancing > agendas. XML can be part of that, but I believe that even > there, saying a thing is good for its own sake is a dangerous > assertion of religious zeal, not common sense. Is pursuit of technological coherence (never even mind excellence) religious zeal? Does every application need to go through an RFC process with bidding and contracts to be useful? XML isn't good for its own sake. Neither is technology. But making sure that the technologies we create actually perform as expected involves a range of activities that may not be consistent with business agendas. To say that I'm sick and tired of hearing "everybody's doing it, and there's money in it" as an excuse for pouring resources into specs that have little value when examined outside of dollar-sign glasses is an understatement. It's (long past) time for people interested in the technology to push back against the people interested in the business of technology, even if that means biting the hand that feeds us. XML hype seems to be over - maybe it's time to get XML's technological house in order instead of chasing the big bucks. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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