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On Friday, October 06, 2000 at 2:28, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote : > Now the 'things' are of course 'back'. They're just called > 'XML standards' instead of 'proprietary tools'. The only XML "standards" that I am aware of are the Recommendations issued by the W3C (none of which are proprietary). Industry-specific vocabularies are not "standards", although they are usually promoted as such. Edd Dumbill's recent post summed it up best: "I'd have been amused to see how this writer would have talked about ASCII: 'But they're all writing their own sentences, just how they want! It's all too confusing.' "
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