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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: xml 2.0 - so it's on the way after all?
 On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:06:19AM -0500, David Lyon wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2005 06:26 pm, you wrote: > > > I can see your point. I guess they chose the less and greater than > > > characters because they look a bit smoother on the screen > > > > Screen? We're talking about the 1960s. > > Are you saying xml is that old? I'd be interested any reading any > links about xml in the sixties... XML is a subset (more or less) or "profile" of an older ISO standard called SGML. This was published in 1986, after years of work. The earliest work with a publishing system within IBM certainly goes back to the 1970s, and quite possibly the 60s. At that time, there was no separation between the tag and the presentation -- it was closer to a fixed vocabulary like PARA, ITALIC, BOLD. The GENCODE committee was tasked with coming up with a complete list of such of tags for all publishing. When it became clear to them that this wasn't possible, they developed a system for letting people defining their own tags (SGML) and (published much later) formatting them (DSSSL). XML and XSL derive from that work. I wasn't involved with SGML development, and first used it in 1987. But it was a smaller community of people then :-) Draining the swamp, in my article, by the way, was a reference to a paper Jim Gettys gave on using a common XML-based format for configuration files, at Guadec a year or two ago. I'd planned to edit that article for xml-dev, but it got found first :-) Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ 
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