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Samuel R. Blackburn wrote: > 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. I agree. > 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. That is based on a mistaken view of SGML --- a widely believed mistake, to be sure. > 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. Surely you don't suppose that you can have maintainable, reusable data without machine-interpretable schemas? DTDs aren't the best possible schema language for a lot of reasons, but right now they are all we have. > 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. I agree with that too. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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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