>  
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>  For some reason, I have a feeling that the unjustifiable complexity of
>  the later XML specs is not altogether random and goes beyond the
>  Second System Effect [0] mentioned in [1].
>  
[...] 
>  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.
>  
>  As soon as you've won your war of attrition, you have no use for the
>  very instrument you used to win it.

Relax ... and rest ;-)

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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