- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:25:30 +0200
- To: "S. Mike Dierken" <mdierken@hotmail.com>
- Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>, public-web-http-desc@w3.org
On 6/3/05, S. Mike Dierken <mdierken@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > >I think the power of automation is with XML. > > > > I don't think XML has a monopoly on automation. > > There's a big jumble of isolated capabilities from many providers that XML > can help smooth over and bring into the larger network that is the Web. > There's much more than that, but it's this broken ground that needs to be > fixed. Sorry for the heresy, but I'd suggest that in general XML, specifically the profusion of application-specific formats are part of the problem. To make the Web more joined-up in its services will require more than low-level syntax conventions (they're useful, but nothing like sufficient). Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com
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