Cement Shoes for XML

[Jim Garrett (NAVIX)]

Simon:
So what do we(the XML users) do now...?

And how do we keep XML from the getting a new
pair of these shoes...??

This is most alarming....!!!

I had "Hiiiiiigh hopes" for Ubiquitous XML..!!!

JDGarrett

>Some of you may be interested in my latest essay, "Cement Shoes for XML?",
>which explores some reasons why client-side XML support, at least in the
>dominant browsers, may be slow in coming or perhaps worse.  Hopefully, I
>haven't said anything too rude, but it's the result of several weeks of
>frustration brought on by reading articles about how slow and/or broken the
>XML
>development efforts in the current browsers appear to be.
>
>Developers planning on using server-side tools to send XML to browser
clients
>will probably find it most alarming. (Myself included.)
>
>The essay is posted at:
>http://www.simonstl.com/articles/cement.htm
>
>
>
>Simon St.Laurent
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