The Pace of Innovation (O'Reilly)
In last week's column I suggested, only half-jokingly, that one motivation for new XML developments was to give techie journalists like me something new to write about. In making this silly claim, I was primarily reacting to what is widely seen as a kind of monotonous redundancy on the XML-DEV mailing list, an important part of the XML development community. If XML-DEV is any indication, the development community believes there are innovations remaining to be achieved with XML, but since the pace of innovation has slowed, it returns repeatedly to core, essentially, contested issues seems to relieve some of the psychological burden of expecting new things and not getting them."