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Yep. The network effect would be the discovery by users that RelaxNG is a productivity enhancer and being adopted by significant numbers of partners. 1. If application language developers for the W3C and other organizations adopt it, that is a positive feedback effect. See Robin's note on SVG. 2. If at least one tool vendor of note implements it, that will couple to the effect in item one. How strong the effect is, I don't know. In a market where 'good enough' is provided, it is hard to create demand for marginal items without playing Tootsie Fruitsie. Maybe the question is, how expensive is it to implement and integrate RelaxNG tools? For VS, possibly high given that XSD is coupled tightly and hidden as much as possible in VS. len From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...] As you point out Betamax lost out because video stores couldn't afford to support multiple formats. What makes you think the same doesn't apply for tools vendors and integrating mutltiple schema languages into their tools and frameworks? Simply having the W3C start trumpetting RELAX NG as the second coming isn't enough. You have to have paying customers asking tools vendors to bear the costs of supporting multiple schema languages.
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