Re: [xml-dev] "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basicprinciples

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Len Bullard scripsit:

> http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/afng.html
> 
> John Cowan might be able to explain what became of this work.

I never got it quite right, and I never had the energy or motivation
to pursue a slightly-wrong implementation.  Eventually it fell off my
open-source/open-standard bucket list.

> My point is to note that work on these concepts stretched out over a
> decade from when that first article was published (although Hytime
> itself had been around a few years by that point) and some of the most
> brilliant minds in the markup tribe worked on it.
> 
> And without much fanfare, it died.

The best may be the enemy of the good, but the good often returns
the favor.

-- 
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