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RE: Microsoft's DISCO proposal and XML packaging

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
• To: Matt Sergeant <matt@s...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:42:50 +0200

> From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:matt@s...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:41 AM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: Edd Dumbill; xml-dev@l...; Jonathan Marsh
> Subject: RE: Microsoft's DISCO proposal and XML packaging
>
>
> HTML parsers are almost as readily available as XML parsers. Certainly
> there are ones for Perl, Python, C/C++ and Java.
>
> I think the reinvention of the wheel is more significant than this.

I don't agree. Building a framework around XML based web services and then
to require that for service discovery you need a full-blown HTML parser
doesn't make sense. Think about PDAs, embedded devices etc.

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