Re: Seems it's all been worthwhile :)

Richard Light (richard@light.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 6 Dec 1997 10:55:54 +0000


In message <199712051851.TAA03832@relay2.force9.net>, Adrian Orlowski
<adrian@solero.force9.net> writes
>...
>The news is that this scenario might not be that far away:
>
>"Microsoft CEO Bill Gates recently said that XML will be the
>data format for Office and HTML will be the display
>standard." I have the following reference for this:
>Vendors to push XML as all-purpose Web middleware format
>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?97121.exml.htm

Excellent news. I make/made a similar plea in 'Presenting XML' ("XML-
Based Authoring", p.44-47).

Richard.

Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard@light.demon.co.uk