[thelist] The future of XML
Peter-Paul Koch
gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 16 11:24:46 CDT 2001
>Being a hand-coder for nearly 9 years, I have adapted my own coding
>standards when
>developing sites for our clients. I capitalize all of my HTML tags and
>their attributes,
>but the variables are lowercase.
>
>First off, I want to say that I absolutely hate XML.
Why? I don't use it, but I don't hate it either. It's a tool for various
tasks, but not for coding web pages.
>A friend of mine just told me that in the next year or so, that XML will
>become the standard for web development
As many already commented, this is nonsense. Sure, you can make a site with
XML pages and CSS/JS/XSL stuff to lay it out, but why should you? Especially
as it will be visible only in NN6 and IE5+
>and that I will not be able to code the way that I have become accustomed
>to. If this is the case, then I do not forsee myself being a web developer
>for much longer as I am not about to adapt the way I code to someone elses
>standards...
I have the same feeling, but with one major modification: I do not wish to
change the way I code *as long as my way works in the browsers*. If the
browsers, say, stop recognizing <P> and only accept <p>, I'll change my
coding practices, but not before.
W3C promotes XHTML as a bridge between XML and HTML, personally I don't
believe in XHTML because the changes it advocates are not necessary.
Browsers will always continue to support good old HTML. For my reasoning see
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/xhtml/
Anyway, this is an old discussion that hasn't moved forward much since I
wrote the article more than a year ago. XHTML (= XML) works fine, but there
is no reason why you *must* use it, it's strictly a personal choice.
ppk
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