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On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:19, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > With XML, it's harder and harder to make that separation because the > tools are growing more and more intertwined. Using these specs created > since the rise of W3C XML Schema (or heck, Namespaces at times) requires > more than an understanding of XML 1.0 + a few reference books - it > requires a clear understanding of many intertwined things which are not > themselves particularly clear. > > I can still sort of hand developers XML + a parser and expect something > good to come of it, but developers looking for anything more than that > quickly find themselves in strange territory where many things look > familiar but combine in unusual (and sometimes problematic) ways. Those > tools and specifications (especially anything derived from WXS) look at > the core XML 1.0 information with expectations derived from elsewhere, > making it more and more difficult to explain the separation of the core > from the supporting tools. > > On the bright side, reading the Web Services family of specifications > brings on even more of the same kinds of despair, so it certainly could > be worse. > Looks to me like the database debates of the 60's/70's. and xml at the moment is at about the same stage as codasyl etc was then. ..... now all we need is another ted codd ..... rick marshall
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