Message text written by "Michael Champion"
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- Target Audience: ebXML should be targeted to the ordinary business
programmers of the world, not "people whose DTD skills [an XML expert]
respects very much" if it is to succeed in the marketplace. Ponder the
success of HTML, Visual Basic, XML itself, etc.: all these can be used
effectively by virtually anyone who is computer-literate. Contrast this
with the non-success of SGML, LISP, etc.: technically superior but
difficult
for the ordinary person to use quickly and effectively.
>>>>>>>>>>> Importantly as well - using nothing more than a simple editor
and a browser; not complex visual tools that
create incompatible
content attempting to lock the user into one
vendors product over
another.
These arguments apply to XML Schema as well as to ebXML; I personally hope
that the W3C refocusses that effort on finding the 80:20 point (for the
e-business world) NOW and achieving the rest of Schema's lofty goals in the
next release. Assuming that they do not, ebXML would be well advised to
find such a point themselves, or to use a simpler schema language (and let
people use XML Authority or whatever to translate to the W3C spec when
necessary).
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Michael,
Lasering in on the key points.
DW.
