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Happy 4th birthday, XML!

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-MAY-02
Format: Online - approximately 805 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Happy 4th birthday, XML!(Column)

Article Excerpt
Here are the last "cards" we opened as part of XML-J's ongoing celebration of XML's fourth birthday (actual date: February 4, 1998, the date of the W3C's XML 1.0 specification). Our question was: What would be the best birthday present anyone could give to XML?

From CHARLES GOLDFARB, the soi-disant" Father of XML technology":

What to give the girl who has everything for her fourth birthday? Like any beauty pageant queen, XML wants world peace. But though she's pacified the world of universal interchange, we're not letting her realize her potential for universal communication.

A generalized markup language is not just a common syntax for messaging or a verbose form of CSV for data exchange. It's a standardized means...

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