• From: Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@i...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:46:55 -0000

Rob Schoening wrote:
> >  XML has nothing of the kind.  I hate to sound pessimistic, 
> but if things
> >are left to evolve this way, XML is going to become just another
> >open-standard *file format*.  

Hey, great! Is someone going to invent an open-standard file format?
About time too.

(Seriously, I'm looking for the pessimistic bit.)

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