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        <title>What are the alternatives for customers?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>What is not ethical, however, is that the customer is forced each time to move to yet another technology that solves the same problems. So the customer pays, but he doesn't get more functionality or an increase of the abstraction level....]]></description>
        

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            <description><![CDATA[I agree that having some standard is much better than having incompatibility. The point is that there was already an elaborated standard for distributed computing, but it has been as good as abandoned.<br><br>To me it is not necessary that the messages...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:09:47 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Werner Donn??</jf:author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Whether there is conspiracy behind it or not I don't know. I can imagine some companies make such agreements. Things like that happen. IT companies will in any case not standardise more than the market expects from them, because the margins on...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:56:14 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Werner Donn??</jf:author>
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        <title>XML.com article: A retrospective of XML (so far)</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=36563</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Conspiracy theories are popular these days therefore&#x2026;It just makes sense for IT industry do things inefficiently....</blockquote><br>I would argue that the alternative practice... having a range of arbitrary incompatible text and...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2005 07:31:05 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Sep 18, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Steve Zara</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: map of XML maze?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><blockquote><a href="http://kensall.com/big-picture/bigpix22.html" target="_blank">http://kensall.com/big-picture/bigpix22.html</a></blockquote>Yes, that is it!I would love to have it as a big banner and wave it every time  somebody says that...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2005 07:23:36 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Steve Zara</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: map of XML maze?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=36563</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><a href="http://kensall.com/big-picture/bigpix22.html" target="_blank">http://kensall.com/big-picture/bigpix22.html</a></blockquote>Yes, that is it!<br><br>I would love to have it as a big banner and wave it every time  somebody says that XML...]]></description>
        

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        <jf:date>Sep 16, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Konstantin Ignatyev</jf:author>
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        <title>XML.com article: A retrospective of XML (so far)</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=36563</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Conspiracy theories are popular these days therefore&#x2026;<br>It just makes sense for IT industry do things inefficiently because: they can sell more hardware, services, software, bandwidth etc.<br><br>It is makes sense for many corporate developers...]]></description>
        

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        <jf:author>Konstantin Ignatyev</jf:author>
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            <description><![CDATA[In my opinion, the major mistake with respect to XML is that it is being used to solve just about anything. Everything must be encoded in XML these days, even RPCs and business data, while XML is merely a presentation language. This is how something such...]]></description>
        

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        <jf:author>Werner Donn??</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: map of XML maze?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://kensall.com/big-picture/bigpix22.html" target="_blank">http://kensall.com/big-picture/bigpix22.html</a>]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:16:11 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Sep 15, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Eric Jacob</jf:author>
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        <title>map of XML maze?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=36563</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Does somebody have link to map XML stack of &#x2018;standards&#x2019;  similar to Java maze map <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/new2java/javamap/intro.html"...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:08:45 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Konstantin Ignatyev</jf:author>
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        <title>XML.com article: A retrospective of XML (so far)</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=36563</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[In &quot;<a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/09/14/goodbye-xml-deviant.html" target="_blank">The More Things Change</a>&quot; on XML.com, Micah Dubinko offers a retrospective of XML and discusses some of the enduring topics of debate in the...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:45:05 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Sep 15, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Joseph Ottinger</jf:author>
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