RE: [xml-dev] Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention

> not bother with the Atom format standard  since the RSS mess is ugly
> but under control; rather focus on an Atom API standard, where worse
> is definitely NOT better.

Yes.  And to say that XML's success is a prescription for how to "fix"
RSS is a bit ironic.  RSS is the most successful application of XML to
date, and is still one of the most visible examples that one can hold
out to a non-geek to explain why XML is successful.