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• Subject: Re: Demand for web services
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 07:40:10 -0400
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Joe Fawcett wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> Perhaps some of you would like to comment on this?
> 
> I am currently co-authoring a book and am writing a brief history of XML 
> and Web services.
> One of my assertions was that the growth of (XML) Web services was 
> promoted by the need to separate content from presentation, users 
> required data in a "pure" form which could then be styled as they saw 
> fit and depending on the front end, their device capabilities etc.
> 
> One of the editors has strongly disagreed with this, although he hasn't 
> really offered any counter points.
> 

I'd say this was *one* of the driving forces behind *XML* but I don't 
think it has much to do with web services as such.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim

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