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- From: Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- To: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:39:31 -0600
Ann Navarro wrote:
>
> So, if I don't use your vocabulary, I'm incompatible?
>
> XML, in good part, is about *not needing* to pick one single way to do
> things. You don't need to have people declaring 'best viewed in X browser'
> any longer.
>
> There's nothing incompatible nor non-interoperable about well-formed and
> valid XML.
XML cannot fix the "best viewed in X browser" problem. That is as
much a problem of different frameworks as markup. Well-formed
and valid XML is a syntax and a namespace; not more or less. The
promise of interoperability and compatibility requires an architecture
with well-defined semantics and testable conformance.
len
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