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You bring up some interesting points. I first heard about XML about a year ago at the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference in San Diego. At first, I was very excited about the technology. I came home and added XML to my freeware C++ class library. What excited me about XML was it's ability to pass data in a form that anyone could parse. Universal data transfer. Sounded like a good idea to me. The syntax of XML is wonderful. However, IMHO XML is saddled with design goal #3 "XML shall be compatible with SGML." I thought, "Oh great, yet another way to show pretty text." I don't need another way of showing pretty text. HTML has solved that problem well enough. What I need is a way to pass data around so anyone can use any part of it they wish. Looking at XML from a data centric perspective, there are things in it that are worthless, DTD's for example. When asked why I use XML in my programs, I tell folks "what HTML is to text, XML is to data." I've found XML to be a wonderful solution to exporting data in an easily consumable format. I could care less if a browser knows how to consume XML. Just my $.02, Sam Blackburn -----Original Message----- From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@u...> To: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 3:45 AM Subject: XML is boring (was Re: coming clean with the SGML crowd) >My retitling of this message is deliberately provocative, and I do NOT wish >a flame war to ensue. I want the title disproved, but by *actions and >evidence*, not statements of faith. [snip] >Where are the excited XML hackers? You don't need a *browser* to do fun >things. Where are the grad students (Paul Prescod doesn't count any longer >:-). [snip] xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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