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I think >there is a serious point behind that bit of levity: all the might >and magic of XML for structured records processing can be achieved >in any other format as long as you have an underlying data model >and a set of naming conventions. This includes linking, >transforms, and even RDF-type things. Yep, and you're right to point it out - it's all too easy to forget. >In the allegory you're trying to fill out, the massed Troubadour >armies include the bearers of the following standards: > >"XML has mindshare: let's use it to forge interop between tools, >regardless of the mutation to XML itself" >"XML has mindshare and works well with the Web: let's use it forge >peace between the Microsoft and the ABM distributed programming >clique, regardless of the mutation to XML itself" >"XML is just text: layer everything else or leave it alone". Nicely put. Expressed like this the 3rd flag looks the nobler. >Derek Denny-Brown sued for peace in Provençe. I say: bah! To >battle: no one profits through such an ugly peace. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife!
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