Re: [xml-dev] Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services

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2003-02-03T14:01:57Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services
 (Mike Champion) writes:
>The world being as it is, I suspect that whatever we "decide" here,
>the data-oriented applications of XML will drive the evolution of a
>new species of markup metalanguage that is more optimized to data,
>e.g. a more programming-like syntax, adding terseness and rapid
>parsability as design goals, and making it easier to compose multipe
>documents into a single legal document, etc. 

So how do we encourage these things to happen?  Send checks to the WS-I?

(Somehow I suspect that the WS-I will at least have the courtesy to
change the acronym...)

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