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Re: The XML 500 word Challenge

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• Subject: Re: The XML 500 word Challenge
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:11:08 -0400
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10/26/2002 5:56:49 PM, AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote:

>Picking up Mike Champion's question about how to communicate that XML is, so 
>it is suggested, "simple" let's have a challenge for list members to explain 
>XML in 500 words to someone who is a Web developer but has no formal CS 
>training.

I tried such a thing early this year in response to a (similar?) challenge
to product a "No Silver Bullet Manifesto."  See 
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200201/msg00965.html

(OK, the substance is 537 words ... I'd trim in order to win the prize
if it were a little more tangible than the honor of polishing my halo!)

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