Article:		XML on the Web Has Failed
Subject:		So all our customers are have failed? ...rrrrrriight
Date:		2004-07-22 18:44:36
From:		John Rutherford
Funny thing is I think you are dead wrong about XML. Yeah there are a few not so insurmountable issues. But if XML has failed SOOOOO miserably, how come our company and ALL its cutomers (a huge chunk of the Fortune 500) invest so heavily in it.... on the web none the less. And our company is not by a long shot the only one. If it is such a failure do you think open source groups like XML.Apache would still be growing and going strong? It would be even more a success if the web clients had addressed and supported XML earlier. They still pale in comparison to what can be done with a good run through Xalan, Saxon or the like. But someday maybe. So for now we just run everything through or XML/XSL servlet layer to generate just about any doctype we want. But it's still an XML success story on the web. So, if it "has" failed so terribly, why is this website even here?

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• So all our customers are have failed? ...rrrrrriight
  2004-07-26 10:14:44 markp_author [Reply]
  
  > But if XML has failed SOOOOO miserably, how come our company and ALL its cutomers (a huge chunk of the Fortune 500) invest so heavily in it.... on the web none the less

  
  Dunno... maybe because they're doing it wrong, like virtually everyone else? Maybe because they were sold a load of magic pixie dust wrapped in angle brackets? Do these alleged customers have URLs of XML they're serving over the web? Post them so we can judge their conformance for ourselves.