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> XML's long-term contribution isn't that it solved data exchange > problems. It's that it made it possible for people to believe those > problems could be addressed on some useful level. > > Both of these effects are primarily social rather than computational. > I would put it differently: XML has solved data exchange problems, and yes -- the reason is that those problems are primarily social. I saw any number of groups struggling in the 1980s and 1990s with defining data exchange standards, who failed because they got bogged down with syntax and encoding issues; once XML came on the scene, they were able to raise the level of debate and discuss the semantics (where they actually had some useful expertise). Michael Kay Saxonica
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