Not so analogous to containerization, then.
Doug describes XML:
a tag based meta-language [...] allows the creation of self describing data.
So "XML"
per se doesn't mean ready-made standardized "containers" (they're in the DTD/Schema), but more of a *container-construction kit*.
If y
[ou l]ook at it that way, are you still so sure it will "revolutionize" IT like containerization did shipping? Do you believe shipping would have been commoditized if there had only been a standard for *how* to build containers, but no actual standard for the resulting containers themselves?
(Needless to say, since you already inferred it from my tone above, I don't think so.)
[EDIT: Typo; "you look" inadvertently contracted to "yook".]
Edited by
CRConrad
June 14, 2002, 06:11:40 PM EDT
Not so analogous to containerization, then.
Doug describes XML:
a tag based meta-language [...] allows the creation of self describing data.
So "XML"
per se doesn't mean ready-made standardized "containers" (they're in the DTD/Schema), but more of a *container-construction kit*.
If yook at it that way, are you still so sure it will "revolutionize" IT like containerization did shipping? Do you believe shipping would have been commoditized if there had only been a standard for *how* to build containers, but no actual standard for the resulting containers themselves?
(Needless to say, since you already inferred it from my tone above, I don't think so.)
Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. --
Andrew Grygus
