On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Michael Poulin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I do not get it, Sanjiva, 'weak' and 'strict' are not antonyms. I would say > that that XML Schema defines not a weak but the lower denominating data model > while some others define more specialised (which does not necessary mean > 'strict') models. This is why XML may be a universal intermediary. Actually, > IDL also defined a universal intermediary but it was too 'techy' to attract > investments from business People. >
I think IDL was less techy then XML for the current status of technology used for distributed processing SOA, J2EE, .NET, Web Services etc. But yes XML can capture/ store wider range (& source) of information including from a word document, modeling tool, IDL, or ASN.1 or any other. regards, Shashank
