• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!) and Binary XML not needed...
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:32:37 -0000
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• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> 
> I left out the low cost of XML tools in my "why XML took off" 
> bit earlier, but it's definitely a factor.
> 

It is not just a factor, it is *THE* most important factor; exactly the
same factor that led to TCP/IP killing off OSI Transport, and SMTP mail
killing off X.400.

Of course, one could argue that the low cost of the tools is a
consequence of the lack of complexity in the spec, and that is therefore
a factor too.

Michael Kay

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