Re: has XML, XSLT, XQuery and XML Schema have reached a stable state(B

Humans write programs, machines consume them. Let's hope we dont
evolve into a world where things work the other way around.

Mukul Gandhi writes:
 > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:44 AM, T.V Raman <raman@google.com> wrote:
 > > Language experience over the centuries $(ÿ > > once having evolved to perfection die. Said differently, Latin
 > > and Sanskrit are no longer spoken;-)
 > 
 > I am not sure, how spoken languages relate to programming languages
 > like XML. Programming languages are used in machine computations,
 > while spoken languages are not.
 > 
 > > Let's $(ÿ > > the Web --- though I fear that circumstances may have already
 > > caused that to happen.
 > 
 > I am not sure, how XML is competing with HTML or XHTML on the web. I
 > think, HTML still is a leading technology on a web browser. I wish
 > though, that people use XHTML on the browser, as it's a HTML dialect
 > and is well-formed (so XHTML is like XML on a web browser). It seems,
 > web browsers do not comply widely to latest XHTML standards, as they
 > do for HTML and XML. I do not know, why browser vendors choose to do
 > this?
 > 
 > Allowing me to write web pages in XHTML, makes it possible to process
 > XHTML by XML tools (I can transform it with XSLT, process it via
 > DOM/SAX or whatever).
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Regards,
 > Mukul Gandhi