Ari Krupnikov writes:
>  So the big fish rode out DOM Level 2. Some will ride out W3C
>  Schema. Those left standing will try XML Query. And then the winner
>  will throw away the specs it used to win the battle.

I've hoped for a long time that enough little fish will focus
exclusively on the simpler toolset that was first proposed to insulate a
lot of us from that potential disaster.

Markup seems capable of supporting small distributed visions as well as
huge centralized visions, with much lower lock-in though perhaps less
obvious profit.

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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
http://simonstl.com may be my URI
http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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