[thelist] The future of XML

phil crawford crawford_phil at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 17 09:47:53 CDT 2001


Although you are correct in that browsers will support olde html code, xhtml 
is still well worth learning. The focus shouldn't be on the browser, as that 
is only one type of client, but on the server side.

I mostly do content writing and UI stuff, so html and xhtml is what I do.  
I'm not much of a programmer.

Where I work, we create applications that take data from a database, perform 
some business logic on it, and generate xml.  Then, we apply xslt's to this 
xml data to create html for the browser to display.

I have to use xhtml. The xslt's (along with the xml) create html that is 
viewable in virtually all browswers (the client is gov.), so the html we are 
generating is not anything new.

I had no choice but to learn xhtml.  Not really any learning curve at all.  
Lower case, close all tags (and a few other things) are really not that big 
of a deal to me.

-phil

>From: "Peter-Paul Koch" <gassinaumasis at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: Re: [thelist] The future of XML
>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:29:49 +0000
>
>
>>>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.
>>
>>But doesn't it make sense to future proof what you're
>>doing now, to reduce the amount of legacy code you'll
>>have to upgrade when that day arrives?
>
>My point is exactly that the day will never arrive. Browsers can handle
>upper case tags now, so developers can (and will) use them. If a browser
>were released that didn't recognize upper case tags, many sites would not
>work in it and its users would get annoyed and switch to another browser.
>Since this is Bad for Business,  browser vendors will never release such a
>browser.
>
>I call this the Principle of Browser Conservatism: anything that is
>supported now will remain supported until the end of the WWW as we know it
>now.
>
>>As long as <p> works everywhere (it does), what's the
>>problem?
>
>No problem at all, I just maintain that using <p> instead of <P> is a 
>matter
>of personal choice.
>
>ppk
>
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