To atone for my sins in a previous virtual life, I have been made the program manager "owning" the DOM APIs at Microsoft -- MSXML, System.Xml, and whatever lies ahead in the future. Whoever runs the universe has a sense of humor, anyway :-)

I've been struggling to crystallize my thoughts about the numerous discussions, mostly leading back to our anonymous colleague minimsft, about the bureaucracy / stifling process at Microsoft. The posters have been mostly Microsoft veterans; perhaps it...