Re: XML History 101

>   That's my point. XML 1.0 is a cleaned-up,
> simplified
> version of SGML and it took off like wildfire.
> 
>   Conclusio: It's better to start with a simple core
> and then add on to it using real-world experience
> instead of using a big-bang approach that supposedly
> solves everything from the start.

Exactly :), it's a good approach you can see perhaps  
      in all new standards. THere is defined simple
core and clean mechanism for extensions (and for
identification of their presence/support). You can see
it in examples SGML vs. XML, DAP vs. LDAP, ... . After
all it follows principle of Occam's razor :), allowing
us to avoid overmatching. I only hope this approach
will be even more wide-spread.


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Received on Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:33:04 UTC