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> > > > > > Screen? We're talking about the 1960s. > > > > Are you saying xml is that old? I'd be interested any reading any > > links about xml in the sixties... > Joan M. Smith, SGML and Related Standards, Ellis Horwood, 1992. from Appendix A, A brief history... "Many credit the start of the genric [sic] coding movement to a presentation made by William Tunnicliffe, chairman of the Graphic Communications Association (GCA) Composition Committee, during a meeting at the Canadian Government Printing Office in September 1967: his topic - the separation of the information content of documents from their format" "In 1969 Charles Goldfarb was leading an IBM project... Together with Edward Mosher and Raymond Lorie he invented the Generalized Markup Language..." It's actually remarkable how many of the things we take for granted today originated in the late 60s, including portable operating systems, object oriented programming, relational databases, and GUI interfaces. Many of these things took 20 years to become mainstream, XML took a little longer. Others, like secure operating systems, still haven't made it, despite an obvious requirement. It's also amusing that Mosher and Lorie made it into XML but Goldfarb didn't! Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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