• To: "Mark Seaborne" <MSeaborne@o...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Sky is falling again...
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:36:37 -0700
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• Thread-topic: Sky is falling again...

Also remember

"As groundbreaking as they are, XML services and XML service networks
are merely another new technology." 

:) 

The article was a hoot. 

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>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Seaborne [mailto:MSeaborne@o...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:26 AM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> 
> Thank you for that, I haven't laughed so much for ages. These 
> guys are talented satirists. I can't wait to get my "arms 
> around XML namespaces" and give them a loving hug. Presumably 
> a "catalytic role" is designed to reduce harmful emissions to 
> the atmosphere?
> 
> Where I work we have decided that there is a definite place 
> for environmentally friendly XML, made mostly from recycled 
> materials, and fully biodegradable. 
> 
> We were also wondering if there might be a market for stain 
> resistant XML.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Mark Seaborne 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...]
> Sent: 08 October 2002 12:41
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  Sky is falling again...
> 
> 
> http://news.com.com/2010-1071-961117.html?tag=fd_nc_1
> 
> "Just because an XML message is "valid" (meets XML standards) 
> does not mean it can work with other valid XML messages, or 
> that it will behave as expected. As a result, we're losing 
> control of the hundreds of disparate XML vocabularies we've 
> developed, the mountains of XML-ized data we've generated and 
> the millions of XML-enabled software components we've created."
> 
> Somewhat wide-ranging and IMHO, not entirely coherent (XML as 
> a branding issue?) but nevertheless worth reading to see what 
> everyone else is reading.
> 
>   Paul Prescod
> 
> 
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