Ten Predictions for XML in 2007

An anonymous reader writes "2007 is shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago. XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc, and GRRDL are all promising new power. Some slightly older technologies like XForms and XSLT are having new life breathed into them. 2007 will be a very good year to work with XML."

Comments

Re:My hope..

[Jeffrey Baker]

XML has standard APIs (DOM, XPath, and so forth) that plain text lacks. So although experience with flat text files is meaningless, experience with XML is not. Organizations advertising for XML expertise will be happy to hear that their job ads have turned away the clueless, such as yourself.

Gorak thinks XML is a fad

[SimHacker]

Who are you, Gorak, the prehistoric ice man from 1996??! How long have you been frozen in a cave, if you're just getting over the impression that XML is the latest fad? What was it like having Steve Irwin jam his thumb up your butthole?

-Don