Cart
|
[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: 10th anniversary of the annoucement of XML ..need help
 Except microformats are a bit of Hytime: the arch forms. And despite the almost mythical original goal (it would be hard to get agreement on what that was), XML has been applied very much where it was said it wouldn't be: messaging. I proposed that on comp.text.sgml and was quickly shot down. The MID proposed XUL/XAML and Yuri looked at me across breakfast and said quite seriously, "No one will ever do that." So much for the vision of XML. In the end, the groups synthesized the common experience and it was applied as applicable. Hytime baked for too long. It starts out with the same linking as HTML but spins out of control as ever more stuff is added. It is the classic "complexity doesn't scale or sell" story, so bits and pieces get picked up and redone as independent works. (As I recall, that was predicted.) Timing is everything; listening is everything else. Interesting: given all of the various projects over the years, if one started with SGML again looking at the various projects, what would the subset be today? Or would it be a superset now (SGML almost had a binary but the roof blew in just as that was happening)? len From: Robin Berjon [mailto:robin.berjon@e...] And microformats, Ye Aulde HTML, etc.. XML picked a subset of SGML that fit a specific goal. I wonder (completely idly) if there wouldn't be value in extracting the minimisation features from SGML to create some form of "XML (Infoset) Extraction" spec, similar to what is being done with GRRRDDL? 
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! 
Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|
|||||||||
