RE: [xml-dev] What is XML For?

The idea has probably been around since the first 
DTDs were created for GML.  I wasn't there and 
don't know.  However, it was widely practiced 
in the IETM community in the eighties as part 
of the IETMDB effort.   Not new at all.

len

Alaric B. Snell wrote:

> Because XML has a fragile data model, designed for publishing stuff to a 
> browser rather than transfer between applications?