The theft of the presidential race in Florida also was given big television network coverage. Blather blather is words. To a degree, XML is now more complex than SGML was. If we continue down this route, XML will become SGML, and in a couple of years, someone will decide to create XML all over again. I think the major problem is that we've lost sight of the vision behind XML, and we've forgotten what the goal of architecting solutions is.
Complexity only introduces more problems.
Simple solutions that address as much of the problem set as possible without introducing more problems should be the goal. That hasn't happened yet. To a degree, XML is now more complex than SGML was. If we continue down this route, XML will become SGML, and in a couple of years, someone will decide to create XML all over again. Because Pardongate is a much more important event than us bombing Iraq again for whatever reason.