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Re: What is XML For?

• To: "'The Deviants'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: What is XML For?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:09:40 -0500
• In-reply-to: <20021028215836.525E15542@c...>

alaric@a... (Alaric Snell) writes:
>> Au contraire.  XML was *designed* as SGML-lite in the first place.
>
>I wasn't there, but I imagine the people who made it first had a
>statement of problem (which I imagine was along the lines of "Hmmm,
>HTML is a mess and everyone's producing content as HTML even though it
>has myriad forms of other structures behind it that are lost to
>automated processing when turned into HTML. What shall we do?") that
>preceded "Hey, let's make a simple subset of SGML" by at least one
>fiftieth of a second?

Given that XML came pretty completely out of the SGML community, I don't
think it's surprising that they felt SGML had a lot to offer.  There may
be a few exceptions, but for the most part I think it's fair to say that
these people were immersed in SGML.

Now if the ASN.1 community had had a similar idea... maybe they will
yet.

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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
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http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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