Re: Second International Symposium on Invisible XML

On 19/08/2026 14:41, Bethan Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> [...] the kind of people who meet XML experts at conferences in
> other domains and either mock or attack them and their work.

This is extremely common, the same as it is if you try to mention LaTeX 
among XML people. Not so much mocking these days, though, just dismissive.

> So I find the suggestion to hide XML away a little bit sad and a
> little bit insulting 
Yes, although I have said for some decades that my personal target and 
expectation is that XML (I originally said HTML) would become to 
embedded in everything that no-one knew it was there except the experts. 
We are obviously nowhere near that yet, but I was prepared to suck it up 
and omit mentioning XML in the title...

> So I would suggest a slight tweak to Elisa's wording for a title: 
> "Symposium on Invisible Markup: IXML and beyond"

...until I saw Elisa's wording and your tweak; and for the reasons that 
you and Sheila mentioned: discoverability and recognition.

Are we going for all-caps rather than the implicit italic lowercase "i" :-)

Peter

Received on Wednesday, 19 August 2026 15:49:53 UTC