XML complexity as war of attrition, by O'Reilly blogger Simon St. Laurent, about the dangers of the current XML complexifications.
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Ari Krupnikov sends a warning about the dangerous consequences of the ever-growing complexity of the XML family of standards
I kind of agree with his conclusion:
As people turn to tools, they lose sight of the capabilities that were available in the simpler specifications, trapping themselves ever deeper in the webs of features cast by companies with a clever business plan. Larger webs catch more food, and may overshadow and starve out smaller webs.
It's not only true with XML, but with J2EE as well. You can see that strategy in action today with the big guy's strategic push on their IDEs: BEA Weblogic Workshop, IBM Eclipse, Sun NetBeans, and last but not least, Microsoft Visual Studio.
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