Re: Second International Symposium on Invisible XML

On Wed, Aug 19, 2026, at 11:39, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 19/08/2026 13:21, Graydon Saunders wrote:
> [...]
> > Invisible XML is taking XML's "you've got to use a parser and a
> > parser has to have rules"
> Along with referring to "markup" I also carefully avoid "grammar" and 
> "parsing" when outside the room. "Pattern-matching" and 
> "context-checking" seem to go down fairly well with educated, moderately 
> technical impending users without scaring them off.

I would not disagree with that terminology.

I does suggest that the proposed conference needs to decide if it's an education-and-collaboration event or a marketing communications event, it being challenging to do both at one time in significant (but not sole!) part because the appropriate language changes.

Graydon