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The road so far ... and the road ahead. (From The Editor).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-JAN-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The road so far ... and the road ahead. (From The Editor).(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
One of the key reasons behind the explosive growth of the Web is the simplicity and ease of use of the underlying standards--TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTML. Experts and critics have often argued about what's wrong with HTML and HTTP and why we need IPv6 et al. For instance, with the advent of XHTML, we are now realizing why HTML should have probably been XML-ized from Day 1; similarly, we criticize the fact that HTTP is stateless. However, the ubiquity of these standards has easily surpassed their technological imperfections.

Enter XML, and the definition of ubiquity changes altogether; what started as a simple markup language for information dissemination is now generalized as a...

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