>xml does a few, small, essential things. none of them have anything to do >with electronic data interchange. they have to do with ANY data >interchange. hence it creates a very useful syntactic base for working on >particular semantic domains SUCH AS electronic commerce. > >d/
Thanks David -- I think it is most exciting that business data will be part of a global semantic framework which gives us real knowledge management, integrating the money stuff with the broader, nonfinancial context which we live in. As such, XML will heal some of the wounds that have been caused by centuries of quantifying everything in life, in money terms. XML moves us closer to machine intelligence, if you will, in which the different domains in the computer are integrated into one intelligence. That's what is really at stake in the move towards XML semantics, and the e-business community is very broadly supporting this I believe. These things are what make XML standards meaningful for many of us, Todd
