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RE: wacky XML

• To: 'Rich Salz' <rsalz@d...>, 'Norman Walsh' <ndw@n...>
• Subject: RE: wacky XML
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:55:12 -0600
• Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>

As I recall and that was when I was younger, it was 
the tower and the king that were smoten, but the 
people were scattered babbling.  So when XML comes 
to full dominance, we can likely expect the Internet 
to crash once and for all.  

o  Since as everyone knows, the WWW and the Internet 
are not the same thing, perhaps the WWW will be spared

o  Since as we all know, URIs identify resources, not 
representations, addressing won't work, but everything 
will still be on the web.

o  Since as we all know, PC clients are losers, your 
representations will still be delivered by web browsers, 
but web will refer to their feet.  An RSS feed will 
come in a bag with the name of the mill where it 
was ground on it.

o  The work for a semantic web will go on because 
it is fully funded.

len


From: Rich Salz [mailto:rsalz@d...]

> World domination isn't my thing, but if it was, I'd be using XML.

I dunno.  The last time all the peoples of the earth spoke the same
language, were Smote Down.  Perhaps there's something to be said for Tag
Soup. :)

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