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• Subject: Re: xml 2.0 - so it's on the way after all?
• From: David Lyon <david.lyon@c...>
• Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:03:43 -0500
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On Friday 04 February 2005 10:59 am, David Carlisle <davidc@n...> wrote:
> > The earliest work with a publishing system within IBM certainly goes
> > back to the 1970s, and quite possibly the 60s.
>
> http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
>
>     .... Later in 1969, together with Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie, I
>     invented Generalized Markup Language (GML) to solve the data
>     representation problem.  ....
>
> David

That's really good. I guess "contribution" is the right word to
any extra work that might be done with xml.

I really had no idea that xml was so old and there was so much
history to it. And here i was thinking it just sprung up in the
tech boom of the 1990s.

Computergrid : The ones with the most connections win.

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