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>> XML's take on hyperlinking, while certainly more startling >> than what HTML does, was still really just scratching the surface. Amen to this. Regards, Jamie Sent from my mobile On 1/19/14 2:53 PM, Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Hi Folks, > > When XML first appeared on the scene there was an exponential growth > in XML production. Many specialty fields were spawned: validation, > transformation, pipelining, hyperlinking, etc. > > Many areas show signs of internal exhaustion--for example, > grammar-based validation, or hyperlinking. It seems unlikely that > either will ever again produce anything that is both new and > startling within its bounded confines. Uh..... hyperlinking was around long before XML. XML absolutely did not spawn hyperlinking. XML's take on hyperlinking, while certainly more startling than what HTML does, was still really just scratching the surface. Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/ _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php |