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At 12:38 PM 20/07/01 +0800, Rick Jelliffe wrote: >So insisting that Jon should be the sole bearer of the title "the father of >XML" is as silly as calling Tim Bray the "inventor" Not nearly as silly. No informed person could consider me the inventor [I only ask not to be blamed for the over-enthusiasm of conference organizers]. But XML would not have happened without Jon's tireless, and for a long time thankless, banging on doors that didn't want to open and shouting into ears that didn't want to listen, and his subsequent firm grip on the steering oar through some very swirly and dangerous waters. There can be no doubt that if Jon hadn't stepped up, we might today be living in a landscape of competing fragile proprietary binary kludges a la Flash and PDF, with what we'd now refer to as "<html:class" being the state of the art in nonprocedural markup. Shudder. Calling Charles "The Inventor of Markup" is arguably disrespectful to generations of blue-pencil-wielding scholars. But "The Chief Inventor of Descriptive Markup" would be 100% accurate, and it seems to me that "Inventor of Markup" is a fair abbreviation for non-pedants. As to Charles' relationship to XML, I observe that he is probably the world's most successful publisher of XML-related dead trees. So virtue does not go entirely unrewarded. -Tim
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