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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. 10 Years and still waiting by BunnyClaws · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am still waiting on all of those promises that XML was going to revolutionize the web.

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    "Anything tastes good if you deep fry it."
  2. plus 1, Tro7l) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    share. *BSD is AAl our tim3s have

  3. Re:Regex by the-matt-mobile · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, thank you for the unnecessary terminology lesson, but I believe that I made it pretty clear in my post that I was referring to Regex technologies, not a formal DFA/PDA engine for a "regular" language. Thanks for playing though.

  4. XML == the CSV of Y2K by DulcetTone · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there a real difference between the two when you get right down to it?

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    tone