Dear Tim

I agree with you that there is limited focuses (possibly 2) for using XML in current IT opinion.

Using XML for defining complex data structures is great but not enough.(Using XML for data transformation and making integrated systems and .... also are not so important or deep.

I guess new perspectives and worlds are coming through using XML in OO data explanation. Have you ever heard about "Object Transparency"?

Regards

This very much reflects what I see and experience in the field ( work for the services dept. of a enterprise software company ).

* No webservices, pretty much
* XML/XSLT used for display primarily, or passing XML docs around for different apps talking to eachother (with the XML "invented" as one goes along, and either with or without schemas - in the latter case, the schema usually comes after the fact, generated off an actual XML doc.)

Oh, and virtually no .Net at all... (all Java)