- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 19:56:36 +0000
- To: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: Jonathan A Rees <rees@mumble.net>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
Henry, Fine (though it seems odd to me to exclude Atom from the list of popular XML vocabularies). Do you have particular references for Docbook, DITA, UPnP and AEMP or shall I just search and use whatever seems to be the appropriate reference? Jeni On 8 Mar 2012, at 17:47, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Here's a go at some text for the XML paragraph > > XML provides a simple standardised way to serialize information > representable as labelled trees with annotations and > cross-references, allowing a free choice of markup vocabulary. This > not only makes it well-suited for human-authored documents, > particularly given its facility for mixed content (plain and > marked-up text) and built-in support for Unicode, but also means it > is a useful syntax for all kinds of machine-to-machine data > transfer. XHTML, Docbook and DITA are examples of XML-based > languages primarily intended for documents; machine-to-machine uses > include UPnP (for networked device discovery) and AEMP (for > construction equipment). > > ht > -- > Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] > > -- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com
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