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It's good to know BigBubba has arrived at OASIS. Better late than never.
The funny bit here, Edd, is how many don't notice that XML and HTML are incompatible while article after article on the web insist that XML is the child of HTML.
http://www.intersystems.com/cache/technology/whitepapers/hybrid.html
has the usual errors.
Once the kudzu is in the fields, you can never quite kill it off, and that is why XHTML finds little fertile ground. YAGNI.
OTOH, the concluding remarks in the thread were more interesting. In summary, the web browser as a development platform isn't the only contender. If we want full XML conformance, predictable and reliable implementation, then the HTML-centric browsers must give way to the next generation of systems; yet even XML is just a side show. Systems such as Longhorn with built-in rules for extensibility are the future. The browser wars are over and the framework competitions are beginning. This has implications in the device space given a push toward a richer interface that won't play well on platforms where the limiting factor is the batteries, not pixel space. For all the talk of convergence, quite the opposite is probable.
len
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