Balisage Paper: The 100 Year Web: In Praise of XML
Steven Pemberton
CWI
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Abstract
It’s about sixty years since the start of public computing; fifty years since the term “software crisis” was coined; Europe is celebrating thirty years of the internet this year; and we’re celebrating twenty years of XML this year too. It is a milestone year for XML, and an important juncture as well. The last W3C XML WG has finished its work. What next? Where should we be heading, what do we want to achieve next, and how should we do it?