[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- To: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:28:58 -0500
Andrew Layman wrote:
>
> Regarding using XML as a storage format for data, Stephen Mohr suggested
> "not unless you plan interoperability with competing products." Actually, I
> think that a good case can be made for using XML if you intend
> interoperability with future versions of the same product.
And if you keep the DTD or schema, future versions of the same class
of products should your product vendor go away. Information outlives
applications. For some, that reads like rhetoric, but for the SGML
community
with a decade more experience, it is self-evident fact. Markup works.
len
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|
