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-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey E. Sussna <jes@k...> <snip/> >I would like to encourage the XML community to 1) pay attention to the lessons of 30 >years of development in the arena programming and type languages, and 2) not get >bogged down by the historical baggage of the M in XML. XML came about to solve issues in structured document interchange on the web. Perhaps largely because the language syntax was developed more quickly than linking or stylesheets, people started using XML for a broader range of problems. If XML meets the needs of people working on those broader range of problems, then they can go ahead and use XML, but I would be extremely disappointed (as I'm sure many people who contributed to the original development of XML would be) if XML shifted away from being a solution for structured document interchange. If XML "moves away from being markup oriented" as you suggest is already happening, then XML will no longer be a solution to the very problems it was designed to solve. Long live XML for publishing! James -- James Tauber / jtauber@j... / www.jtauber.com Associate Researcher, Electronic Commerce Network Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia Full-day XML Tutorial @ WWW8 : http://www8.org/ Maintainer of : www.xmlinfo.com, www.xmlsoftware.com and www.schema.net 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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