• To: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Subject: Re: W3C Successes (RE: W3C Culture and Aims )
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:52:16 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: evan@e... (Evan Lenz), mc@x... (Mike Champion), xml-dev@l..., jwrobie@m...
• In-reply-to: <f5bd6wo6uyn.fsf@c...> from "Henry S. Thompson" at Apr 25, 2002 09:30:56 AM

Henry S. Thompson scripsit:

> [S]ubstantive 
> work was done in the WG: XML went a long way beyond any existing
> technology from major web vendors.

XML was independent of, and irrelevant to, existing technology from
major web vendors.  It only existed in the W3C at all on sufferance,
as I understand it.

XML was, as stated by many others, a reduction (perhaps an insufficient
reduction) of existing SGML technology.

-- 
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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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