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RE: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"

• To: srodriguez142857@y...
• Subject: RE: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:28:27 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev OASIS <xml-dev@l...>

I think it evident that web != (hypermedia | hypertext) and that 
is why what Nelson said in that article isn't as relevant today.

The web started there but progressed beyond those notions.   Hypermedia is a

evolutionary step to a modern GUI-interface over a database and a 
network plus, but texts-As-The-System is too limiting a concept.

o  XML as a transport payload (text with markup)
o  XML as a service payload (markup with state metadata)
o  XML as a presentation application
o  XML as an archival/hydrated format

and so on.  Evil is getting a good workout.

len

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