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RE: Venting

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> Why can't Illustrator files be posted on the
> Web? Why can't Microsoft Word files be posted? The answer really
> boils down to problems with incompatible file formats. XML can solve that
> problem, but it won't if we operate under the mistaken assumption that the
Web is All
> and All is the Web.

In fact, XML *cannot* solve that problem. It's a single syntax that can be
used
for modelling information, so unification at the syntactics level is
possible,
yes, but the *semantics* are entirely application dependent.


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