- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:09:06 -0600
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:57, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > My guess is that what Dan meant was that really long term persistence > is the a bility of a librarian or computer scientist to figure out what > a document meant long after the standards are gone. Yes. > XML, with its recurrent use of <> and its matching redundant > use of a tag name at beginning and end of an element, makes this > sort of rosetta stone task easier than for, say, a binary document. > > Similarly, if an XML document is corrupted in the middle you can > make use of some of the rest. > There is often redundancy in the indentation vs the tag closing too. > > But that's just my guess could be miles off :-) no; thanks; with my busted finger, putting words in my mouth is much more welcome than usual. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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