Article:		Three Myths of XML
Subject:		Pound Pipe Caret Tilde Splat
Date:		2001-06-15 11:21:45
From:		Ed Welsh
If you've spent time parsing idiosyncratically delimited text files, XML truly is magical. I agree with Clark's main points. However, much of the hype over XML is directed at programmers, and some of this hype makes sense. The government's use of SGML may not have revolutionized institutions, but when a programmer is asked to post an ancient cache of documents in HTML or PDF, it should be a snap; thanks to the richness and "transformability" of SGML. While debunking the myths, keep in mind the realistic goals of standardized markup in general.

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