in reply to Re: Perl/XML/MySQL
in thread Perl/XML/MySQL

XML was once considered a replacement for HTML- but that didn't pan out.
Both halves of that statement are provably wrong.

XML is the replacement for SGML. And XHTML (the XML-ized version of the SGML-based HTML standard) is the new standard for Web browsers, says the W3, of whom Netscape (now AOL) and Microsoft are big members and players.

Today's tip: People will trust the rest of your answers better when you stop making stuff up when you post.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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RE: RE: Re: Perl/XML/MySQL
by mirod (Canon) on Nov 12, 2000 at 18:16 UTC

    Well, actually both statements are probably (and may be even provably ;--) true.

    XML was developed by people from the SGML world as a way to capitalize on HTML's success and to re-marked SGML in a more "you-can-do-it-too" way.

    So for SGML people (of which I didn't know you were one merlyn!) XML is the replacement for SGML, but it was really proposed and pushed as a replacement for HTML. And it is still widely perceived as "the future of HTML".

    As I saw it once XML is "HTML on steroids", and conversely it is "SGML on Prozac".

    The bottom line is that XML is whatever you want it to be, and I don't think beating up on people who see it from the HTML angle is a good way to promote it.

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