Do not worry. HTML will exist together with XML. XML is much more powerful and actually it can be easier then HTML and so more and more people will shift to XML, but browsers will still understand both. XML (+ RDF + several other standards) is more then formatting language. My prediction is that they will have as huge impact on our lives as the steam engine had, becouse they will enable to very effectively share, use and leverage informations. Paul May wrote:
Hi,
From: Mark Winter <M.Winter@Sheffield.ac.uk> Subject: Re: XML
HTML is looking to be redefined in terms of XML.
This should not cause panic but in order to make the transition easier there are some things that you can start doing *now*. In particular change to lower case for *all* tags and attributes. So <h1> not <H1>. Always terminate elements: so <p>....</p> (you must include </p>. Always use </li> at end of <li> elements. Always use quotes for attributes: so height="20" not height=20.
Hmm, some of these shouldn't be a problem, but to make all tags case sensitive and specify that they have to be *lower case* is going to be a major headache. I look after over 200 web pages, with maybe 100+ tags per page, so we're talking about 20,000 tags that are all upper case (since that was the recommendation for HTML). To change them all would be a nightmare - and that's just my sites. Most web sites in the world use upper case for tags, so unless the XML browsers accepted both I could see the entire world's web sites crashing instantly. This isn't a secret ploy by Microsoft is it, to break the internet so they can rebuild it using their systems? ;-)
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