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To: cmchang who wrote (3913)	1/12/2000 7:43:00 PM
From: MrBuzz	Respond to of 4337

"As for html companies not going anywhere, from the past, the Vermeer/Frontpage guys would disagree. From the present, I think the folks who worked on Dreamweaver, homesite would also disagree." Each of the products above are NOT a core revenue source to Microsoft, Macromedia, and Allaire. Anyone who does professional website work does NOT use any of the products above - they do it by hand with an ASCII editor. WYSIWYG HTML editors is hardly technological innovation worthy of being "huge" as you say below. If you can type it into Notepad, you can do XML. "XML is huge. As an open standard, it will do what EDI couldn't, and will provide easier application interoperability. It's perfect for the web. The simplicity is it's elegance as application flexibility and firewalls issues won't be a problem" EDI has nothing to do with XML (a document standard used as a communication protocol). You can use binary protocol to pull off the same thing - which is what EDI networks used anyway throughout all these years. Publishing your data constructs to be read in human readable form is hardly innovative technology - a engineering specification on an greed communication protocol does the same thing along with a little code. XML has nothing to do with firewalls.