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Celebrate the XML Decade
IdaAshley writes "IBM Systems Journal recently published an issue dedicated to XML's 10th anniversary. Take a look at XML application techniques, and general discussion of the technical, economic and even cultural effects of XML. Learn why XML has been successful, and what it would take for XML to continue its success."
Sorta... XML came at a time when there weren't a whole lot of good viable data representation standards. Those that did (i.e. SGML) were too complicated for light use. XML was meant to be used by the masses while still technically remain an SGML subset. We have better alternatives today, but once something is in widespread use, it's not going away for awhile.
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A curly brace syntax would have been a better format for "large scale enterprise publishing"? As someone who has spent more than a decade in that field, I must disagree strongly. A curly brace would have been better to allow enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. Please do not confuse what XML is used for with what it was designed for. There is a reason that XML delivery units are called "documents" and not "messages".