Happy Birthday, XML!
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen,
W3C,
Feb 12, 2003
This week marks the fifth anniversary of XML. The specification was published as a 25 page document on the W3C site on February 10, 1998. Things, as they say, have become more complex since then. " Five years ago, XML tools could be developed by a good programmer in a week; now it may take full-time teams of the best programmers to keep up. Usability has suffered a bit." But where now? As the authors observe, "Our entire computing architecture is in flux." And a warning. "With these new architectures comes an increased need to interact with data. Large numbers of people must have intimate knowledge of information and of how to build systems to manage it. If these people cannot easily understand XML and its companion specs, they will find something else which is slimmer and trimmer." They speak the truth.
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