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20-Feb-2003
<birthday number=”5years”>XML</birthday>; Thoughts on HTML’s Popularity
From XML at Five from xml.com: Rick Jelliffe … criticized XHTML: “HTML thrived on being more forgiving of missing tags than even SGML allowed. Throwing that away makes HTML a lot less attractive. Which is true of markup in general, actually.” With which I wholeheartedly agree. HTML is supposedly the most common electronic document type...