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At 07:22 AM 9/11/98 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >At 08:40 AM 9/11/98, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: >>Or am I right that XML is fundamentally about as boring as the introduction >>of TTL or 3-phase electricity - worthy, but manufacturer-level only? > >That might very well be the case. -Tim If that's the case, we've all lost out, and should tell the magazines to cool the hype and settle down to more important stories on exciting issues like stock prices and IPOs. Oh well. I guess the revolution's over before it got started. Could have reached a much wider audience, but somehow snuffed itself out. Sort of like SGML, perhaps. I strongly hope that's _not_ the case, because the stuff just isn't so damn difficult that you need a CS degree to figure it out. XML is approachable, even easy. There's no reason to lock it in a back room for only the supposed 'experts' to tinker with it. Now back to writing a chapter on validation... Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth (November) http://www.simonstl.com 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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