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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tim Bray wrote: > > > 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 I recall the days when 'information hiding' was a good thing ... ;-) Unfortunately people seem to want to buy a honking big toolkit, use the APIs / interface (as in WSDL) builders, and brag ignorance of the data model ... A Pity, that. Ian
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