Re: [xml-dev] The Goals of XML at 25, and the one thing that XML now nee

[Arjun Ray <arayq2@gmail.com>]

 On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:56:17 +0100, Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
wrote:
| On 19/07/2021 19:23, Gavin Nicol wrote:

| > ... and don't forget that XML also inherited all the baggage of
| > schema, RDF, etc. etc. which seriously skewed perceptions, even
| > though it was guilt by association.
| 
| I think all of those came after XML. But yes, they are unwanted baggage.

RDF, in particular, with its _demand_[*] for colonified names, was the
root of much evil.  

[*] demand, because it was part of the Metadata Activity - at the time
the apple of the Director's eye - which therefore Could Do No Wrong
and Could Not Be Gainsaid.

| > I've often thought it'd be interesting to try and push XML back into
| > the browser. 
| 
| <plug>
| Come to my talk at Balisage on rendering XML with CSS in the browser :-)
| </plug>

Anything like Sean Vyain's qweb browser? (No idea what happened to
it.)