While it might not make sense to create the COM object, it might make a lot
of sense to build supporting structures for VB, Delphi, PowerBuilder, and
whatever other tool you like to work with. And it _might_ conceivably be
worthwhile to build parsers for these environments. There are hurdles -
Unicode one of the largest among them - but it might well make sense to
build DOM-compliant or SAX-compliant (okay, fine, it probably won't be
precisely SAX) for these environments.
(Heck, I know a fair number of people using Delphi precisely because it
_isn't_ an MS product, and they might like a non-MS parser for political
reasons.)
My personal focus these days is definitely on Java, but there are plenty of
days I wish I had the Delphi environment's full set of tools. (Yes, I have
JBuilder, but it's not quite the same...)
Simon St.Laurent
Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer
Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth (November)
Building XML Applications (December)
http://www.simonstl.com