Article:		XML on the Web Has Failed
Subject:		Good point, but...
Date:		2004-07-21 23:43:40
From:		Fobold
Another interesting and informative article, Mark. I personally disagree that XML has failed completely. It's certainly become extremely popular and there are innumerable libraries for working with it. That said, I do agree that the state of encoding is disparaging. Perhaps in the next revision of XML (1.2?), the W3C could exchange "MUST" for the phrase "DEFINETLY ABSOLUTELY 'WE ARE NOT JOKING YOU THIS TIME' 'DO IT OR ELSE' MUST". Maybe then people would pay attention :)

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