From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <>
> > 31 January 2003 11:18 am, Mike Champion wrote:
>> Document and Messaging XML use cases certainly share a lot, but
>> maybe they don't share everything. I resist data-heads imposing their
>> paradigm on XML as a whole, and I resist doc-heads insisting that data-
>> oriented applications do it the One True XML Way.
>That's the essence of Eriks message... and I think many of the things he
>outlined for a data interchange language make great sense. Perhaps it is time
>for fork.
I thought he is moderating his old stance that IIRC everyone should use LISP
instead of *ML, to something more like "always use binary when you need binary;
only use SGML if you cannot use LISP; only use XML in some other case (i.e. never)"
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
