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Don Box wrote: > My experience has been that many interop problems are a result of various stacks (ours included) trying to mask the existence of XML altogether. That combined with a WSDL specification (1.1) that invented far more than it needed to has made life harder than would otherwise be necessary. Hard to disagree with, but... > 2) The community at large is waking up to the fact that XML is a data model to be embraced, not a weird syntax to be hidden below layer upon layer of goop. In my experience it's a serious source of interoperability problems when people try to pretend that XML is a data model, not a syntax; they are (to quote you) "trying to mask the existence of XML altogether". Your application and mine probably have profoundly different needs in the data-modeling department, XML lets us interoperate anyhow. I've always thought that's where the big win was. -Tim
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