X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["462" "Wed" "11" "November" "1998" "20:11:52" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "19" "Re: XML (was quotes, a very long time ago)" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil "XML (was quotes, a very long time ago)" nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29625; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:12:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.072643D2@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:12:10 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 408100 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:12:06 +0100 Received: from ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.1]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08595 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:12:03 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:11:57 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:11:48 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:11:21 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN2 in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:11:52 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13897.57406.627974.229852@fell.] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: XML (was ... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: <199811111731.MAA10898@hilbert.math.albany.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: VM 6.44 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <13897.57406.627974.229852@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199811111731.MAA10898@hilbert.math.albany.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:11:52 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: XML (was quotes, a very long time ago) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2871 > > But I think that with successive approximations one will find that the > LaTeX we know and love is a complicated categorical limit of XML's. An elitist writes --- A beautiful result: apply immeditaly to the NSF for a research grant to prove it! A cynic writes --- Well, the above research is much more likely to get funded than any more useful research in this area, eg: high quality, multiple-use formatting of complex structured documents. chris