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  6 years ago

  by Main_Man

  Andrew Carter

  Ontario, Canada, Canada

  Joined 6 years ago

  Does anyone know why XML is even going to replace HTML? HTML is so much simpler to use.

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  6 years ago

  by James Crowley

  James Crowley

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 7 years ago

  I think it depends what you are going to use it for.... I think XHTML will replace HTML (which is far more structured than HTML), but i haven't found using XML and style sheets greatly beneficial for a standard (static) web site....

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  6 years ago

  by Main_Man

  Andrew Carter

  Ontario, Canada, Canada

  Joined 6 years ago

  But is there really a point to it? I mean, all these extra definitions of everything. What's the point?

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  6 years ago

  by adambeaton

  Adam Beaton

  Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

  Joined 6 years ago

  XML is not going to replace HTML. XHTML is merely an XML compliant version of HTML.
  

  
  XML and HTML are really totally different things. HTML is a display description language, while XML is a data description language. It makes sense from the point of view of XML programmers to have an XML compliant verison of HTML, as it makes it a great deal easier to write an XML application with a web front end.
  

  
  The point of XML is to provide a standard means of describing very disparate data, and it does this marvellously. It is not meant to be a front end language, and with the exception of XSL-T in certain situations, I doubt it ever will be.

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  6 years ago

  by Main_Man

  Andrew Carter

  Ontario, Canada, Canada

  Joined 6 years ago

  Still, tis XML BS is just that. There's no point to it, and I don't even know why the W3C would come up with it. Are they owned by microsoft?

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  6 years ago

  by James Crowley

  James Crowley

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 7 years ago

  No point to XML?!!!! Take a look at http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points for an overview of what XML is.....
  

  
  W3C is not owned by Microsoft... far from it.

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