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Michael Champion wrote: > I personally would like to see us try to hit that window of > opportunity and evolve XML along a middle path. The issues I see in the wild with XML are mostly structural, not interop. Putting XML inside other XML is still too hard. Part of that happens because envelope metaphors are taken too literally. Part of it happens because XML grammar efforts, especially container formats, are usually chartered to think up a storm about what might go on inside their format, but are remarkably thought-free about what might go on when their format is inside someone else's. This is why the default namespace is broken as designed - it enables container markup to happily trash what's being contained. I'm amazed it hasn't been deprecated. The other consistent problem is encoding, especially through cut and paste - we need unicode-smart clipboards! cheers Bill
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