• From: Norman Gray <norman@a...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:04:15 +0000

On 2014 Feb 25, at 13:43, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...> wrote:

> <http://alistapart.com/article/battle-for-the-body-field>
> 
> "While fields and templates have come to dominate web publishing tools, the XML world has spent nearly 15 years developing a parallel approach. Rather than chunking content into fields and re-assembling it later, the XML community embraces fluid, markup-based documents. To capture meaningful structure and avoid HTML’s browser-specific presentation pitfalls, they define purpose-specific collections of markup tags for different projects and applications. It’s a versatile approach that has crossed paths with the web publishing world: the XHTML standard is just HTML, defined as an XML schema.

Party like it's 1999...

That article makes me feel terribly old.

All the best,

Norman


-- 
Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

• References:
  • Meanwhile, in XML-world
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>