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[Roy Tennant]

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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:01:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Roy Tennant <rtennant at library.berkeley.edu>
To: Webnet <webnet-list at uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Webnet] Keep on eye on XML

XML is *very* promising indeed, although I would take exception to the
statement "lets you publish any type of data using a single document
format." Although that is superficially possible, in reality you will both
want and need to create document type descriptions (DTDs) for your
information or use someone else's.

For more information on XML, there are (at least) two key places:

W3C standards work:
http://www.w3.org/XML/

Seybold/O'Reilly site:
http://xml.com/

I also highly recommend a recent focus by BYTE magazine on XML as a great 
general introduction:

http://www.byte.com/art/9803/sec5/sec5.htm

I just returned from The XML Conference 1998 in Seattle last week, and it
was very clear that Microsoft is pushing it hard. But they aren't the only
ones. John Bosak from Sun is the "father" of HTML, and Netscape
announced some level of support for it in the 5.0 version of their
browser. It is most definitely the future of the Web, although it is also
clear that HTML in all its various forms will continue to be supported for
the forseeable future.

The bottom line: If you are a Web manager, it is (or at least should be)
in your future. Ignore it at your peril.
Roy Tennant


On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Sarah Jones wrote:

> XML (EXtensible Markup Language) is very new and lets you publish any type
> of data using a single document format. It looks very promising.
> 
> http://www.techweb.com/tools/proddesign/9803/980325xml.html
> 
> This is an easy to understand article about XML.
> 
> Sarah Jones
> 
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