RE: XML - where's the beef?

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

Well, John and Darren, I guess that was my point. 

XML was being touted as a combination of the 
power and flexibility of SGML with the ease 
and convenience of HTML.

We seem to be agreeing, then, that it's come 
out as a back-room tool, and not something 
that will ever see the end-user light of day.
Certainly not an upgraded HTML replacement.

HTML will live on, bristling with more and more 
plug-ins and extensions, as the user interface 
of the web. XML will live behind the scenes, 
but will still need to be converted/exported 
out to "standard-of-the-day... whatever-day-
today-is" HTML... plus ActiveX and/or Flash 
and/or MPEG9.  Nobody's likely to mass-market a 
viewer because the very power and flexibility 
of XML makes it too variable. There's no economical 
way to make an equivalent of HTML+CSS... or 
there's no gain to be had from doing it, when 
HTML+CSS plus some plug-ins already exist.

/kevin


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