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Mark Baker wrote: > > At 09:42 AM 11/25/99 +0100, Paul Prescod wrote: > >Cell phones must increasingly deal with structured information. > >Therefore cell phones need to deal with XML. > > Agreed, but that doesn't answer the question of "Why XML?". Well that wasn't so much the question that was asked...rev-bob is obsessed with people who want to read books and entire websites on their palmtops. I don't see that as the primary target market for XML on plamtops and cell phones. > What if I want to send a web page or > vCard or whatever to another cell phone via IR or Bluetooth, where there's > no proxy available? That's where a well-deployed standard matters, and > *that's* "Why XML?". Well there is no well-deployed standard for cell-phone to cell-phone structured information so I think you're still begging the question. Why not a new standard? And I think that comes down to politics and sociology, not technology. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "I don't want you to describe to me -- not ever -- what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand," Grandmother said. -- John Irving, "A Prayer for Owen Meany" 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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