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Tim Bray on the Birth of XML, 10 Years Later

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-bloatetd-and-grown-up dept.

lazyguyuk writes "Tim Bray posts a lengthy blog on the birth of XML, formalized as 1.0 in Feb 1998. 'XML is ten years old today. It feels like yesterday, or a lifetime. I wrote this that year (1998). It's really long. The title was originally Good Luck and Internet Plumbing but the filename was "XML-People" and I decided I liked that better. I never got around to publishing it, so why not now?'"

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  1. so the second coming was 10 years ago? by spectro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I mourn the day XML was born and I would put out a bounty for the heads of anybody related to it (along with millions of suffering developers).

    I long for the day something simpler, cleaner and prettier is created although pretty much anything you can come up with will do (except perl of course)

    btw: Why the hell are we still using HTML?, can somebody please come up with a better markup language for the new generation of browsers instead of patching and complicating HTML even more?

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    HTML is obsolete. It's time for a new, simpler and richer markup language.