It is likely multiple causes. Certainly the specialized mail lists for any application language tends to siphon away contributions, and the fact that XML has been basically baked for almost a decade now. Many questions are better answered with a Google search. Then career changes for individual contributors cause changes of focus. Being free from the gulag where I spent most of the decade reduced the time I could spend. Blogs siphon away what would be off topic, and probably some people tire of finding their comments represented as the original thoughts of others. Mail lists require one to be very broad minded about that or very forceful. A study of possible interest will be possible when the web as a medium has had more than two generations to study and determine if it matures or flattens out as each generation of contributors learns its own lessons.

XML-Dev was conceived as I remember as an information resource. I do wonder how well it fares in that respect.

len

From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:rasm...@gmail.com]

maybe much of the discussion has moved to specialized mailing lists. I'm not sure just looking at the peaks and dips of the graph by itself gives a true picture. Although I am inclined to that interpretation myself.

Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen

On Nov 27, 2007 2:08 AM, Len Bullard <cbul...@hiwaay.net> wrote:

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