Hi,
On 2/9/2012 6:09 PM, Terence Kearns wrote:
Wow. Okay then. I guess it was fun while it lasted. I guess the
conditions aren't there anymore (for open source development of large
projects).
I guess Apache Cocoon's fate has gone the same way.
But Cocoon is still used, and the Cocoon users' list is still active.
I'm not arguing with the basic point, nor even with the questioning of
Cocoon's development activity (which I don't track)....
Personally, I think the volume of code cutters has increased, and the
percentage of "casual" coders has greatly incresed. XSLT 1.0 probably
couldn't get traction with casual coders who could only think
procedurally and it scared them off - leaving no perceivable demand
for the next XSLT interation from the code cutting masses. So the big
coding houses like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle have lost interest.
Personally, I think that's a shame. That XML is primarily useful as
high-level web service data packets (competing with JSON) is a
misconception. It might be the reality that this is how the market
sees it, but "the market is wrong" Living proof that market forces
don't follow technical superiority.
I think much of this is true, yet don't forget that XML and XSLT are
still healthy (very healthy as far as I can tell) in the space for which
they were originally designed, namely publishing systems.
Some publishing systems are content to stick with a single channel of
output, such as print or the web. And if you're publishing only to the
web, you can maintain your data in HTML and/or an HTML-facing CMS.
But other publishers can't do this, or they need to insulate themselves,
to whatever extent possible, from technological changes in target media,
and XML/XSLT allow them to do this. Or they need to find efficiencies
and scalability in data interchange and data longevity that they can
only get through a careful separation of concerns across their
workflows, which XML/XSLT allows them to engineer.
If there's a significant part of the tech marketplace that doesn't even
know this is going on, what does that say other than that the world is a
big place?
Cheers,
Wendell
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