Re: lynx-dev Where are we Headed? (was lynx-dev The Lynx TODO list )

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Sat, May 01, 1999, David Woolley (address@hidden) said:
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| > Also, there's all this hype about XML as the next big thing.
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| XML is often misunderstood.  It is an enabling technology for structured
| documents.  Like HTML is is a derivative of SGML, but unlike HTML, there
| is no fixed set of tags, except for two or three core ones.  It is
| intended as a simplified alternative to SGML, which doesn't require
| a DTD to enable it to be parsed.

For a good "stand back and look at the forest" overview of XML, and what
is (could) mean, there is a pretty good article in the current issue of
Scientific American (May or June issue ... my copy isn't available, at
the moment).

/kim