• From: "Al B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 01:35:22 +0100 (BST)

On 23 May 2001, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> XML standardizes a syntax for labelled nested structures holding textual
> content. 

So does a tarfile, or source code for a programming language.

> For a lot of us, that's all the standardization that is
> presently appropriate. 

[beyond a whole host of networking protocols to get the XML from A to B
:-) ]

ABS

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