On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:01:23 EST, you said:
> I am not sure I agree with the statement that in 10 years XML will
> be history. One of XML's greatest values is in the fact that it is a
> good format for long-term archiving of written material. Some very
> old material (several millenia old) is available in XML format --
> that's more than the 32 years for RFC1. ;-) The reason old text has
> been converted to XML is not so that people can read it on a GameBoy,
> but so that it can be archived, indexed, converted to other formats, etc.
1) Was your millenia-old data *written in XML*, or was it *converted to* XML
within the past 5 years?
2) Will you be able to find the DTD you need in 2035?
> An alternative point of view is that in 10 years XML will have achieved a
> critical mass, so that it becomes as entrenched as many other standards:
> ASCII, TCP/IP, C, etc.
OK.. Wake me up in 2011 and I'll be MORE than happy to reconsider. ;)
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
