Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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XML is the alphabet

Author:	Steve Yost
Posted:	4/27/2000; 6:40:56 AM
Topic:	XML is the alphabet
Msg #:	16741
Prev/Next:	16740 / 16742

Re: the PC Week article The basic failure of XML is its premise mentioned in Scripting News:

I've long thought that the euphoria over XML was somewhat unjustified, and there's no wonder the press is pouting now. Agreeing to use XML is like agreeing to use Latin-based characters and have words separated by spaces for natural language. It's great that we can agree on parsing (and have great free tools like James Clark's to do it), but the real social work is agreeing on vocabulary and semantics.

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