xml-dev - RE: Will XML change the character of W3C?

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

There was also the introduction of dependence on 
reserved words such as XML and processing instructions 
(the XML declaration which isn't one but looks like one 
and smells like one) which had been avoided in the 
SGML Way where possible.  Some systems did make liberal 
use of them.  Some systems such as Oster introduced 
dot naming to infer classes as well. Support for the 
SGML Declaration varied.  Many XMLers don't know that 
is there just as many HTMLers weren't aware of the 
DOCTYPE.

A lot of the competition in markup systems 
happens in the application languages (aka vocabularies), 
not in the meta language.  That was just as true for 
SGML.  Domain boundaries are hard to keep stable which 
is why some doubt a reliable semantic web is achievable 
but for the same reason meta-domain services become 
important and the reliability and quality of these, 
critical.

Len Bullard
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clbullar@ingr.com
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