Re: Second International Symposium on Invisible XML

Dear Norm and list,

I am pretty confident that the new humans will reject the so-called
'wisdom' of their elders who spurn XML. At least some of them.

XML is the new Assembler.

To Bethan's point, I am not sure the name of the conference needs to be
entirely intelligible or defensible. It only needs to be attractive to
(of?) the right people, i.e. the ones actually interested in the topic.
"Declarative Amsterdam" and "Balisage: the Markup Conference" have not
really confused anyone who was not already confused.

And again, I am pretty sure that upcoming generations will not always
accept conventional wisdom at face value. If they do, they will be the
first.

Cheers, Wendell


On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 9:42 AM Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com> wrote:

> Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
> > Oh, hey! This XML stuff is actually pretty cool!
>
> I love your optimism. Have you met humans? :-)
>
> --
> Norm Tovey-Walsh
> Saxonica
>
>

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