In an
article in Infoworld, Martin Lattig reports
that
e-commerce companies are not being well served by
XML standards.
The problem isn't as much the XML core
standards, but the e-business standards being
proposed on top of it. The article cites the
confusion caused by
multiple initiatives, as well as the
danger of XML being "appropriated" by single
vendors
such as Microsoft/BizTalk.
Simon Phipps of IBM is quoted in the article:
"The strategy to embrace, extend, and
extinguish has
not necessarily gone away". Phipps claims that
diversity in XML representations is not
to be feared -- that it is
transformation which will be the key to XML
e-business success.