[KLUG Members] Re: Petereley on XML "Technology" and Hair Care ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:22, Adam Williams wrote:
> is ridiculously simple and glosses over lots of important points (like 
> DTDs which plus those silly text tags can make the data self-expressive to 
> application that know nothing about its source).

You have to realize who Petereley is writing for.  The ignorant
CIO/MS-bigot who things XML is just XML and that XML does everything.

> This is rather like saying 'Gravity makes things fall'.

Correct.  And an XML file alone is just that -- it doesn't give you the
underlying mechanics to calculate how things interact with gravity.  You
need other things to make use of the fundamentals.

-- Bryan

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