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2006 XML.com Reader Survey

by Kendall Grant Clark
December 08, 2005

If you've been paying attention to XML.com this year, you'll have noticed that we're in the midst of an editorial transition. We think--and most industry observers seem to agree--that the era of core XML development is more or less over. We've got sensible ways to handle XML from programming languages; we've got programming languages designed expressly for XML; we've got a wealth of ways to constrain and declare XML vocabularies; and we've got entire enterprise integration and development standards based on XML and the Web.

In short, we've got tons of good, if not always perfect, infrastructure. XML has won the day. So, what do we do next? Well, one of the things we do is start another round of building new, exciting web applications--something lots of people are calling Web 2.0.

XML skills aren't any less important than they used to be; rather, they need to be recontextualized, reimagined, and reinvigorated.

I want to ask for your help. XML.com has a reputation for being a no-nonsense source of cutting-edge technical information about all things XML and the Web. I need your help maintaining that reputation.

As you may know, we've been trying to retool our editorial focus during 2005 to concentrate on what the world looks like in the post-core-XML specification era; that is, what happens when we stop working so much on XML as with it?

Toward that end, we've prepared a survey for XML.com readers, which I hope you'll take a few minutes to complete. Your responses will be studied carefully as I think about the editorial focus of XML.com during 2006.

Take the XML.com survey.

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  • The irony of this is just sickening
    2006-01-18 20:52:11 mchampion [Reply]

    Remember the Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin keeps a snowball in the freezer until summer hoping to catch Suzie unaware, misses, then gets it back in the face? Well, starting with the assertion that XML / Web 1.0 is done and boring, telling us that this site will be turned into a venue for more Web 2.0 hype, and then having something as simple as a web survey be unusable is a bit, well, sickeningly ironic :-)




  • why do this?
    2005-12-09 06:46:10 ChrisJ [Reply]

    Well, I tried completing your survey, but Firefox 1.5 decided to crash half-way through. I suspect it had to do with all those "pretty" checkboxes, radio buttons, and text boxes that served no other purpose than to frustrate me. Is there something wrong with standard HTML form widgets? Needless to say, I won't be trying this again.
    -Chris

    • why do this?
      2005-12-16 08:33:25 dtsmithisogen [Reply]

      A bit behind on my Firefox update. I just used FF 1.0.2 and it worked fine; the only problem I ran into was that when I forgot to do one box and it brought everything back up for me to complete, some of my answers got lost.