Re: [xml-dev] xml 2.0 - so it's on the way after all?

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Rich Salz <>
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Bob Foster <>
Date
2005-02-04T15:54:50Z
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Re: [xml-dev] xml 2.0 - so it's on the way after all?
> If there were to be an XML 2.0, one of the goals should be that any 
> off-the-shelf parser generator can produce a parser for it. It's 
> ridiculously hard to write a correct XML parser; it ought to be 
> ridiculously easy.

If the parser is how most users actually get to "touch" XML, then we're 
probably all better off that there are a limited number of parsers out 
there.

If every damn fool could write a C, C#, or Java compiler, then there'd 
probably be no hope of language portability.
	/r$
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Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
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