>From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>
>
>Q. How many XML gurus does it take to change a light bulb?
>
>A. Eight:
>
>1 to create a syntax for expressing light bulbs
>
>2 to create broadly similar yet different APIs for interacting with light
>bulbs
>
>1 to argue that the API differences can be resolved by splitting the
>universe of light bulb applications into
>physical-model and logical-model camps.
>
>1 to argue that no single, cohesive model is possible.
>
>1 to disagree and invent yet another "gee! all light bulbs can be though
>of it terms of nodes and arcs" model.
>
>1 to question the sanity of all this and just get stuff working by hacking
>simple lightbulb instances
>into relational databases and processing them with Perl.
>
>1 to write the meta-light-bulb joke about it and post it on xml-dev
>
>Sean
>
>
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