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Now is the time to allow for the enormous range of specifications to be adopted, in their current ( and flawed ) form.
Adoption and maturity of existing standards will create barriers to change later on, but allow for a more representative range of commercially based use cases to be created.
In addition, there are many XML 1.0 dependant specifications and technologies that require more time, such as;
- schema: the rich range of validation technologies requires convergance
- query mechanism: XSLT/XPATH 2.0 and XQuery require adoption prior to monkeying around with XML.
- signature and encryption: lack of implementations
- input: lack of xforms implementations
- xlink: hasen't stuck as an integrated standard, lack of implementations
Currently, I would like to poll every author of an 'xml' book to see just how many commercial implementations they have been involved with; with respect to the range of technologies that XML 1.0 enables.
I think ( and yes, this is anecdotal ) that one would find the number less then 5 projects.... and of that 5; budgets of less then a £1,000,000 ( admittedly a poor metric, but probably honest ).
And if this rings true for them, one can only imagine adoption rates outside of this group.
I'm all for discussion of XML 2.0, but think that the current discussions presented, especially in this article, are academic( normally i find xml-dev quite esoteric which can be fun on certain days ) when contrasted to the problems encountered in implementation of a solution.
Without feedback from actual commercial experience in migration and use cases with existing XML 1.0, embarking on 'fixing' XML 1.0 would be achieved by those who do not represent the requirements of the largest group of potential users/developers.
regards, jim fuller
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