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So we need to agree on an "architecture" (such as that shown earlier) and decide where the "sweet spots" are to define standards
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i.e. you do not agree on standards but do try to agree (or guess) what entities will have standards defined for them in the future
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Then standards define interfaces to distributed educational `objects (methods and properties)
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XML is useful as a flexible way of specifying object interfaces in a convenient user readable way supported by growing number of tools
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Internet Explorer and Communicator 5 renders XML
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Many Java libraries for processing XML
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