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- From: Clark Evans <clark.evans@manhattanproject.com>
- To: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:13:12 +0000
John Cowan wrote:
> Rob Schoening scripsit:
> > XML has nothing of the kind. I hate to sound pessimistic, but if things
> > are left to evolve this way, XML is going to become just another
> > open-standard *file format*.
>
> Yes. That's what it is! That's *exactly* what XML is!
>
I agree. It's a hierarchical file syntax. It's much more flexible
than CVS, INI, DB3, etc. However, it would be nice to have a standard
API for dealing with streams using this syntax. *smile*
:) Clark
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