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Re: What is XML For?

• To: alaric@a... (Alaric Snell)
• Subject: Re: What is XML For?
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:16:56 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: paul@p... (Paul Prescod), xml-dev@l... ('The Deviants')
• In-reply-to: <20021028204711.1401D5542@c...> from "Alaric Snell" at Oct 28, 2002 09:45:33 PM

Alaric Snell scripsit:

> XML was designed, sometime in the late 90s; quite incidentally they decided 
> to subset SGML because it seemed a good base for solving the problem at hand 
> (and scarily enough, I agree with them! XML's great as an SGML-lite :-)

Au contraire.  XML was *designed* as SGML-lite in the first place.

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