Found a very enlightening article on markup languages (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Manuals) through Don Park. I think we are now over the Gartner ‘hype’ phase and moving on to mainstream use. Maybe we can even get rid of our geek acne.

“Thanks to my mega-model, minimalist and mu markup phases, I now know a few approaches that are *not* the answer. The latest one that I know is not the answer is XSLT — on its own.”

I would say that I am stuck in the minimalist phase, and I don’t know how to get out. Until we can actually teach tools about new markup, why should we be invented huge vocabularies that only our geek friends care about, and then only to critique (ridicule) them? If only RDF was as easy as HTML

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