intertwingly

It looks like battle lines are brewing once again between Sun and Microsoft.  So far, I've only read what is published in popular press, and what is out there is a bit confusing.  But from what I see, there is value in both positions.

Microsoft seems to be pushing the idea that users can define and document new XML vocabularies, and providing tools that will assist with creation of documents that conform to such vocabularies.  This is goodness.

Sun seems to be pushing for the idea of standardized and interoperable vocabularies for such concepts as pie charts.  This is also a good idea (much as a standardized and interoperable vocabulary for unordered sets of key, value pairs would be a good idea, but I digress).

I don't know if either ideal can be pulled off, but any effort to produce XML vocabularies that are widely supported, not mandatory, and extensible is a good thing.