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len bullard wrote: > Mark Birbeck wrote: > > A consistent theme in this discussion forum is that people > always want > > every major breakthrough that has been made by XML to be > removed, under > > the pretence of coping with some 'special circumstances'. > If you think > > about it, it is quite unique in the history of software > engineering to > > have an agreed standard which allows us to check whether a > document that > > we had no part in designing the layout for, is valid. > > Not to be tendentious, but some of us having been doing that for at > least a generation now. SGML works. Hello Len, I was using my words carefully! SGML has of course been around for a while, and been very important for document management and generation. But in the world of software engineering we are constantly reinventing the wheel; coming up with new file formats, parsers, transmission mechanisms, and so on. So, in the world I'm in, XML *is* a unique and unprecedented contribution. Regards, Mark xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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