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Confused by the chaotic maelstrom of XML specifications coursing through all those standards organizations? Take a look at this, and enlightenment will follow...
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This diagram puts it all into perspective, doesn't it. Sheesh.
Ok, sarcasm again. We can't seriously expect typical developers to make sense of this stuff, even those who just love to read specs. But for a giggle, try this piece of humor I picked up from a friend at Sun -- show that diagram to your hardware engineer friends and bask in the reaction: "Hey, a schematic! I think those software XML guys are really on to something!"
First, why does the diagram contain things such as JPEG and GIF? Second, and more significant, XML is, like, *extensible*, so (and I wish I could recall who made this observation first) listing all the specs based on XML is like listing all the specs based on ASCII.
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