DevX Predicts: A Sneak Peek at 2004, the Year of the Document
What's In? Schema, LAMP, and Apple. What's Out? PDF, JCP, and camera phones. And that's just the beginning. Find out what will transpire on the development front before 2004 has run out.
by the DevX Editors
January 7, 2004
t DevX we've dubbed 2004 the Year of the Document. And one technology—and only one technology—gets the credit for putting the limelight and a bit of excitement back on the lowly document: XML.
This is the year that XML schemas move into the mainstream. It's also the year that "schema wars" begin. Microsoft has taken a bold step by making Word and Excel read and save well-formed XML files and releasing the schemas those applications use. This move could backfire easily though, because now any application—including competitors such as OpenOffice—can create Word files. Obviously, many will. The battles will occur not over schemas themselves, but over which schema will become dominant. Whatever happens, translation between the various XML formats will be much better and more robust than translation between the applications' proprietary formats has ever been. And that means document-level interoperability the likes of which we've never seen before.
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t DevX we've dubbed 2004 the Year of the Document. And one technology—and only one technology—gets the credit for putting the limelight and a bit of excitement back on the lowly document: XML.
