Article:		Parsing RSS At All Costs
Subject:		This Article is Quite Depressing
Date:		2003-02-24 07:44:51
From:		Frank Wilhoit
Response to: This Article is Quite Depressing
What we need to face up to is the fact that the MXL community has broken in half without quite realizing it, and the two halves are talking past each other in perfect incomprehension and increasing frustration. One camp says that XML is about formal syntax, the other that says it is about informal semantics. Both are right, because XML can do both; they are talking about disjoint applications. It is not necessary for one side to "win", but for both sides to realize that XML is a sufficiently protean technology to do things that its originators did not foresee.

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