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Re: [xml-dev] RE: Why is there little usage of XML on the "visible Web"?

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To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] RE: Why is there little usage of XML on the "visible Web"?
From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:45:53 -0400
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
In-reply-to: <B8415163A689094689542C617ECA0366DA6267@IMCSRV5.MITRE.ORG>

> There didn?t seem to be any objection to the assertion that HTML is 
> the primary markup language for the visible Web, and that XML is not
> appropriate for the visible Web.

My problem with the assertion is that it seems tautological.  It's like 
saying 'most English speakers prefer English' -- if you're defining the 
web through a browser-based (-biased? :) view, then anything other than 
almost-all HTML would be quite surprising.

        /r$

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