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RE: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"

• Subject: RE: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"
• From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
• Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:54:27 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:43, Hunsberger, Peter wrote:

> That's a good topic, but I think just part of the thread.  Personally, I
> was (at least at some point (no pun intended)) attacking the question of
> when to use XML. For me, even when addressing the question of archive, I
> see more value in XML as an interchange format than I do in a archive
> format.  

Isn't an archive just an instance of an interchange, over time?
I lay it down today,
you pick it up in 5 years time (I can't get my head round opening
any electronic archive in 100 years Michael :-)


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