The history of XML from day 1 has been about the convenience of
programmers or near-programmers, the infamous DePH.
It took marketing to make it about customer needs. The embedded
context is in those text nodes that we mostly ignore.
len
Quoting Greg Hunt <>:
> Isn't this the example in point? The world revolves around developers and
> the geometry gets a bit strange when there is more than one (well, more
> than one distinct developer culture). The XML that matters is the XML that
> is shared and then it is embedded in some business context with its own
> language and culture and needs to conform with the language and culture to
> remain easily shareable. If its not shared, then the tools are what
> matter.
