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- From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@ebt.com>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:40:58 -0500
> Take a phone for example. Your front office could send you
> some notes in XML format so that if it contains a phone number,
> the phone can display a small phone icon at the corner of the
> message and make the call for you when you press a button. Your
> business card can be stored on your phone so that you can give
> it to another person by simply pointing it at his phone. Another
> use might be to receive address information so that you can find it
> using cellular tri-angulation or satellite technology.
This is such a specific application that I fail to see the necessity
of XML... unless of course we imagine *all* phones
being able to deal with such messages.
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