Don Box wrote:
> My experience has been that many interop problems are a result of various stacks (ours included) trying to mask the existence of XML altogether. That combined with a WSDL specification (1.1) that invented far more than it needed to has made life harder than would otherwise be necessary.
Hard to disagree with, but...
> 2) The community at large is waking up to the fact that XML is a data model to be embraced, not a weird syntax to be hidden below layer upon layer of goop.
In my experience it's a serious source of interoperability problems when
people try to pretend that XML is a data model, not a syntax; they are
(to quote you) "trying to mask the existence of XML altogether". Your
application and mine probably have profoundly different needs in the
data-modeling department, XML lets us interoperate anyhow. I've always
thought that's where the big win was. -Tim
