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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > If you ever find yourself in front of an audience trying > to explain the why of XML, particularly to programmers, > try this: > > XML interoperability is often misunderstood because since XML > does not have operations, what is it doing to make a system > interoperable? The network effect? The network effect is a > power law, not a force for good or evil. Like XML, it does not care. > > Think about it as two dimensions of interoperable scalability. > In the x, there is data. In the y, there are operations. > The x dimension scales almost infinitely if the names are well chosen. > The y dimension does not scale well as most operations are local. I believe the y dimension assumption breaks down in a service-oriented architecture, in which operations are shared among multiple service consumers. But my statement may/may not be contadicted by the rest of your post. Kind Regards, Joe Chiusano Booz | Allen | Hamilton Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World > However, when the x names are chosen well, that is, are > semantically potent, the x and y dimensions couple via the network > power law to drive the value of x and y simultaneously. > > That coupling is why XML won. > > len > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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