Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Mike Champion wrote:
> I think lots of other syntaxes that
> are more compressed/encrypted, or more user-friendly, or legacy/proprietary,
> or more theoretically understood (LISP comes to mind) will also be
> widely used to exchange these data model thingies across systems and
> applications and time.

I strongly believe otherwise.

Existing code will be able to use XML syntax much more than new
applications will be written to use *an* "XML data model" as defined
by the somewhat controversial infoset.
        /r$