RE: almost four years ago....

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

XML 1.0 is.  The family of specs around it 
are not.  You can teach XML 1.0 in about 
half a day.  The rest can take three semesters 
and then a year of practice.  Once out of the 
simple instance, XML specs specify a system. 
Taken in totality, XML is now much harder 
then SGML and throwing the combined specs 
onto a floor would kill the first three 
rows of the audience.

Len
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Williams, David [mailto:DAVID.WILLIAMS@ca.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 5:56 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: almost four years ago....


I was just reading some of the old articles on xml.com's features list, and
came across:
"XML has been designed for maximum expressive power, maximum teachability,
and maximum ease of implementation."
	-Oct'97 John Bosak article (off of xml.com)

Are all three still true?  I think they are all still _potentially_ true...
Are the current manifestations of XML living up to this statement, though?







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