Re: XML and its uses

Joe Kesselman wrote:
But human-readable documents are becoming the least interesting application of XML

Actually they are the most interesting and challenging.

The use of XML for data-exchange is largely a done deal, with vast
amounts of software available, plentiful skills, relatively simple data
models, and ample support (even if people do go off at a tangent
sometimes :-)

By contrast, modelling human-readable information is *hard*, with many unsolved problems, poorly-developed software, and only a few experts.
It isn't "just publishing": there's a large amount of work still to be done, and this makes it -- for me -- by far the most interesting area.

///Peter
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