Hi,

>  Von: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@[...].com>
>  Datum: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 13:51:26 +0100
>  An: xml-dev@[...].org
>  Betreff: Re: [xml-dev] XML doesn't deserve its "X".
>  
>  
>  Klaus Backert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > may be, I got it wrong all the time, but I thought that XML is a
> > (meta-)language by means of which I construct markup languages - and this is
> > the extensibility. I use XML like this for 3 years now because it matches my
> > needs - and I will go on. IMHO, the extensibility of XML is a builtin fact.
>  
>  If by extensibility you mean the ability to create your own language, yes.
>  
>  If you also mean the ability to include new information in an existing
>  vocabulary, I think that XML has failed so far.

Including new information into an existing vocabulary (= inserting character
data into an XML-document, which is built according to a problem-specific
language - do you mean this?) is part of my job (doing it by editor and by
own applications). No problems with this too. Could you specify how XML has
failed, please?

>  
>  And the ability to extend (and evolve) the XML specification itself is
>  still to be seen...

An all-time problem, I know very well ;-), but IMO not specific to XML.

<snip> 

Greetings
Klaus


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