Michael Fitzgerald wrote:
>  Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>  
> >XML is now legacy. Its users community is screaming against any change
> >and its specification body seems paralysed by its structure and the
> >diverging interests of its members...
> >
>  
>  SGML evolved. HTML evolved. XML will evolve. As far as "it users community
>  screaming against any change," I see this as a very good sign. Such
>  resistance is necessary for innovation (obviously) which does not always
>  come from established institutions (quite obviously). Innovation will come,
>  whispering or screaming, from outside the expected boundaries. Behold RELAX
>  NG. James Clark and Murata Makoto merged their innovations under the shelter
>  of OASIS, but the sound ideas behind RELAX NG hatched long before April
>  2001. It is, after all, an evolution of the DTD.

RELAX NG is a good example and a good test too. I am convinced that it 
is far better than W3C XML Schema but I am not that sure of its real 
chances of success against the "established institutions"!

>  But XML does not have to do everything right to succeed. Consider vi. Even
>  vi has evolved somewhat, but it's been around for a while. I use it almost
>  every day (thanks to Bram Moolenaar, et al., VIM, and Cygwin). It cannot do
>  all things well but it can do some things very well. (Sorry, I am of the
>  old-school sort that given the choice would take regular expressions over
>  the mouse on any given day!)

I think I can speak about VIM too: I am just finishing a whole book 
(400+ pages) written with VIM :) and can tell it does a very decent XML 
editor. I am not sure that it would be the case if it had to be 
specified by a 40+ persons working groups, though!

Eric


>  Mike
>  
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