Re: Ok, who is the smart guy that invented XML?

On 2011-01-22, Robert Uhl <eadmund42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Seebs <usenet-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
XML's excess verbosity is a pain, certainly, but the extra flexibility
has some marginal value to people who want to do things like docbook.

Yeah, but that's actually using XML as a markup language rather than a
data interchange format...

I would consider a markup language which puts everything in containers to
be a specialized example of a data interchange format.

HTML allows me to interchange web pages between a large number of programs...

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