Article:		XML on the Web Has Failed
Subject:		Nice piece (if melodramatic!)
Date:		2004-07-26 09:38:44
From:		Danny Ayers
Really good to see the RFC 3023 issues taken to a wider audience, but as the other commentators have said "failed utterly, miserably, completely" is rather an exaggeration. The situation is more that there is a gap between specifications (XML 1.0, RFC 3023) and standards (hardly anyone implements according RFC 3023). I must nitpick again - Postel states "a general principle of robustness", not a law that should apply to everything. Specifically XML isn't designed to be robust, so rather than XML (done properly) being an exception, the law simply doesn't apply.

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• Nice piece (if melodramatic!)
  2004-07-26 10:19:16 markp_author
  • Nice piece (if melodramatic!)
    2004-08-31 05:00:42 Danny Ayers