Re: xmlconf discussions

[Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>]

Phil,

I think your note covers a lot of ground.  I would just like to 
reinforce two points in this discussion:

1.  The folks at LISA told us that they recognize that vendors 
differentiate themselves through their CLIs, and that this was a good 
thing.  That relates to your point that being able to rapidly express 
new features.

2.  On elements v. attributes, what leaves a lot of people nervous is 
the readability of the XML.  Now, one might say that someone should 
never have to read XML without a style sheet, but realistically speaking 
people are going to have to not only write this stuff, but read and 
debug this stuff.  I think the challenge here is to strike a good 
balance.  This is also applicable to use of SOAP, WSDL, etc.

Eliot


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