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Mark Birbeck wrote: > len bullard wrote: > > Mark Birbeck wrote: > >> If you think about it, it is quite unique in the > >> history of software engineering to have an > >> agreed standard which allows us to check > >> whether a document that we had no part in > >> designing the layout for, is valid. > > > Not to be tendentious, but some of us having been doing that for at > > least a generation now. SGML works. > > Hello Len, I was using my words carefully! SGML has of course been > around for a while, and been very important for document management and > generation. But in the world of software engineering we are constantly > reinventing the wheel; coming up with new file formats, parsers, > transmission mechanisms, and so on. So, in the world I'm in, XML *is* a > unique and unprecedented contribution. Why do I feel as though I've just been patted on the head? -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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