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Re: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"

• To: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>
• Subject: Re: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:46:31 -0400
• Cc: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>,Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>, xml-dev@l...
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Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
> Not to say it's a bad archive format, just to say that I don't
> see why it stands the test of long term usability necessarily better
> than any other format.  XML parsers may be just a curious artifact of
> the past in 20 years...

But I don't need a parser to read element and attribute names, and see 
how things nest.

For archival purposes, of course, the simpler the markup, the better.

Jonathan

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