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On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Stuart Naylor wrote: [...] > This is not a go at you Len but I would love to be told exactly what > markup is supposed to be and don't get be wrong as I am not saying it is > a programming language. Markup is yellow stickies stuck onto elements of information to identify them, labelled accordingly. Structured markup is the same, but follows a known or predefined pattern. > My self I see XML as data content / designator for computer systems and > it does puzzle me that some believe it is anything else. The data may be > for human consumption but that is where it ends. That's fine. But the reason I added the slightly odd question to the XML FAQ about how to "run or execute XML programs" was to point up the fact that it *is* a Frequently-Asked Question (very: I get 10-20 emails a week asking where someone can find xml.exe. Going by the name and email addresses, most are from programmers either from the Indian subcontinent, South America, or the Far East, so I suspect the question is asked honestly by people who have been given misleading information and are trying to clear it up.) > But you have to ask who and what is going to create markup and it can > safely be said that it isn't humans not by hand anyway. Tools are going > to be created and they will be created by programmers and many will be > unaware of the XML which lies underneath there presentation and method > of retrieval. I hope not, otherwise their programs probably won't work. ///Peter
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