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   RE: Will XML change the character of W3C?

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  • From: Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>
  • To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>,"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
  • Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 06:08:30 -0700 (PDT)

[Amy Lewis burbles]

> >Here's the rub: XML Is Not a W3C Success.
> >
[ Len Bullard responds ]
> > XML is a victory for the markup community in that it proves
> > by demonstration the principles of markup developed over many
> > years and much effort.  That community is considerably
> > larger and older than the W3C individuals associated with the
> > development of HTML and XML, and in many cases, are the same
> > individuals.

[Jonathon Borden responds]
> But for HTML and XML, SGML would still be an arcane markup
> technology

And "but for" SGML, neither HTML nor XML would exist. If you won't
learn your history as taught by people who were present at the
creation, like Len Bullard, try reading the XML Spec -- the first line
of the abstract reads "The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset
of SGML..."

Sheesh.

Sam Hunting 



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<? "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
    -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations ?>

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