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  • From: Andrew Sales <andrew@a...>
  • To: John Cowan <johnwcowan@g...>
  • Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 13:22:36 +0100

Does that make XML... the afterbirth?

On 9 May 2017 at 13:10, John Cowan <johnwcowan@g...> wrote:

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote:

(a) we know the web is built on a foundation of shifting sand

I would say rather that the supposed foundation was just scaffolding and rather overbuilt at that, designed for superstructure that never came to pass.  Similarly, SGML was thought to be the foundation of HTML, but turned out to be its amniotic sac.

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