Re: It's time for practical XML!

len bullard (cbullard@hiwaay.net)
Sun, 04 Oct 1998 22:37:22 -0500


James Robertson wrote:

> It's time to stop writing standards.
> I don't want to know about any more
> *ML languages, however elegant they
> are. We are now at the stage where
> new standards are being submitted
> faster than old ones are being finalised.

Probably true, but all things considered, a
schema winner would be good first that
settled the issues of datatypes, architectural
forms or protos, etc.

I am also hoping for clean Active-X
tools that integrate with the common
commercial platforms such as MS Access.
Oddly after some years of SGML, I find
myself building document management
over relational systems, liking it,
and wondering what I will do with
markup systems beyond lifecycle support.

Len Bullard
IPS