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Re: [xml-dev] SGML on the Web

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To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] SGML on the Web
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:37:07 -0700
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> XML directly on the Web seems to have fallen victim to the notion that
> XML needed a transformative style approach, missing the easy opportunity
> that CSS provided for document display and requiring people to use XSLT.
> That notion has also provided Microsoft with plenty of cover for their
> (non-)approach to XML in the browser, which may have successfully kept
> XML off the ordinary Web.

What Simon said. -Tim

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