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Ted Neward hopes that XML will continue to get hammered as the uber answer:
XML will start to lose its luster. People are coming around to hate XSD Schema. Critics are popping up everywhere. Dave Megginson has a new book out, in fact, that basically takes everybody in the WS-* stack to task over creating specs before seeing if they'll actually work. In fact, the only successful application of XML thus far that anybody but a developer feels is weblogs and RSS, which obeys none of the classic rules of an XML spec. (Read his book, by the way--it's an eye-opener, particularly if you're one of the XML faithful, or if you've been thinking that XML will somehow make the computer world a safer, saner place. I'll put the Amazon link in here when I get a chance, but it's his latest from Addison-Wesley; shouldn't be too hard to find.) XML is useful, but we're starting to see the warts, and behave accordingly.
Hmm - where have I seen the spec a week without testing theory before? Yes, with the OMG, back in the 90's, when CORBA was all the rage. The WS* specs are a complete rehash of that entire silly process...
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