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> A lot didn't. At no point did I ever expect XML to replace HTML, and > wen I joined W3C years later, I was surprised to see that management > seemed to view XML as basically a failed attempt to replace HTML. I think in hindsight there was an awful lot of hubris and NIH syndrome mixed in with the good intentions of many W3C standards (maybe standard in general): so many people didn't *want* to get it. Then of course, there's the subjective weighting... for many people, there was no *apparent* ROI in a cutover. The big lesson is that 'better' isn't necessarily 'good enough'...
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