- From: Roger L. Costello <costello@mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 13:44:44 -0500
- To: xml-dev@xml.org, www-xml-schema-comments@w3c.org
- CC: "Costello,Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>, "Schneider,John C." <jcs@mitre.org>, "Cokus,Michael S." <msc@mitre.org>, "Ripley,Michael W." <rip@mitre.org>
Hi Folks, [Case 1} The January 2000 issue of Application Development Trends has as the title of its front page "Showtime for XML". One of the articles in this issue describes how General Motors has partnered with CommerceOne to use XML in enabling Business-to-Business transactions. It talks about the limitations of DTDs and goes on to say that GM is using the schema language that CommerceOne brings to the table, namely SOX. [Case 2] Microsoft's Biztalk continues to grow and prosper. It uses the schema language XDR. Questions: . Has XML Schemas already missed the window of opportunity to be the schema language to supplant DTDs? . Is the world going to be fragmented with a bunch of different schema language dialects? . Is fragmentation a bad thing or a good thing? . Perhaps the XML Schema WG needs to do some marketing? /Roger
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