Check out Dave Winer's site (http://www.scripting.com). He's making
extensive use of XML and doing more of it every day. He has proposed an
XML-based extension to HTML document headers that would provide a
scriptable way to let search engines know which pages at a site had been
modified since they last crawled it, for example.

The kind of use to which Mike Anderson proposed XML be put in the Squeak
world is exactly on the mark as far as I'm concerned.

"Michael S. Klein" wrote:
> 
> [Nice, but optimistic XML scenario sniped]
> 
> During my cursory delve into XML, I went out on the web to try and find a
> single XML resource.  I did not succeed.  (By XML resource, I mean some
> actual usefull information... not some toy example, and I certainly don't
> mean information about XML.
> 
> My cursory conclusion:  In most cases, people don't want to give up
> control over there own data.  I can see limited contexts in which data
> will be published in XML.... FIPS, for instance.  But for the most part,
> I expect that the public part of XML will be in a "write-only" format.
> 
> Just look what happened to HTML.  It went from a markup language to layout.
> That is to say, most of the people writing HTML want to try to use it as
> a layout language, not a markup language, and most of the popular tools
> (browsers and editors) seem to encourage this.
> 
> Truly, here's hoping that I'm wrong,
> 
>         Mike Klein
> 
> mklein at alumni.caltech.edu

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