- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:05:44 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: > > On 7/6/05, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > It isn't a data schema language (although I suppose HTML has been > > abused for worst things). > > Why not? The same reason it isn't a spreadsheet language: making it one wasn't one of the goals of designing the language. :-) > And what does abuse have anything to do with this? HTML has traditionally and frequently been used for purposes other than its original purpose. For example, using it as a layout language, or using it for describing applications (although we are now turning HTML around so that this latter case is in fact appropriate). HTML could be used for describing a schema; it just wasn't designed to do so, and thus would probably not be the best language to use for that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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