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XML was designed as a federation of interoperable notations. The notations could co-exist and independently and organically grow and enhance the web in all ways
by Mikhail_Edoshin 6y ago
XML was designed as a federation of interoperable notations. The notations could co-exist and independently and organically grow and enhance the web in all ways. This is a much broader vision than what HTML turned into.
- tannhaeuser 6y agoFair point, but neither is nor was XML necessary for new vocabularies or vocabulary evolution (since SGML facilitates that already), nor has RDF/sparql anything to do with it. I'd argue that the organizational lock-up W3C has created with the long XML/XHTML meta-syntax detour and unrealistic XHTML extensions such as XForms resulted in HTML not being extended at all, while everything around it (CSS, JS) was made too powerful to cater for HTML's stagnation during that period.