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Subject:Re: Giving up on XML From:Diane Brennan <dalaine00 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
Before that I was working on electronics and government printed manuals. I even used blue sheets for fold-out schematic diagrams!
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From: Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:05:16 PM
Subject: Re: Giving up on XML
A regional thing? I doubt it: more a market-awareness
issue (see Slashdot archives for the proof).
I've got three years on you with HTML. What took you
so long? ;)
> I'm wondering if this is a regional thing. Everyone
> I know uses XML and as I said, my old writing group
> started using it in June of 2000. I was writing
> online HTML and scripting tutorials in 1996 so
> that's already 11 years ago.
>
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> From: Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:42:10 AM
> Subject: Re: Giving up on XML
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> Sort of. It emerged at a time when most people were
> just mastering the HTML, script, database
> connection,
> and so got a bit forgotten, and it's only recently
> we've seen it widely used.
>
> --- Diane Brennan <dalaine00 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > XML has been around for *9* years.
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