"Robert A. (Bob) Morris" wrote:

The biggest advantage of XML for this group is its impending ubiquity, not its formal structure, and (in my opinion) the discussion here should return to discussing problems, not solutions because that ubiquity will make the community want to use it whether it is the best fit or not (just as has happened with HTML as a presentation vehicle).

FYI I noticed this on the news lines:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ic/xml/99/11/30/991130icxmlbiz.xml

It seems we are NOT alone in the universe after all.