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RE: Choose your RSS

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Choose your RSS
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:57:04 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <830178CE7378FC40BC6F1DDADCFDD1D1D51859@R...>

> There are also lots of incompatible versions of HTML, JavaScript,
> and Flash yet I don't see the Web falling down around our ears.

I'd have said the ECMAScript and HTML specs do relatively well in terms of
compatibility. I've no idea about Flash.

> The entire point of XML was so that lots of [incompatible]
> formats should flourish on the Web. You really should read your
> history. SGML on the Web. Learn it, live it, love it.

Kindly excuse my ignorance. I had no idea incompatibility was one of XML's
design goals.

Cheers,
Danny.

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