[more] HoTMetaL [XMetaL/HMAPPS...] present value [is] the Web's future value.
New Web Language Promises Smarter Surfing
Web authoring technology gains momentum as heavy hitting software companies agree to support new standard
by Jim Heid, edited by Glenn McDonald
June 30, 1998 10:22 a.m. PT
"This time next year, if predictions pan out, the Web will be a very different place to surf. You'll conduct searches with surgical precision and sort tables of data in a flash; you'll also enjoy faster performance, enhanced online shopping, and seamless file swapping between programs.
All this thanks to a new technology called XML. Short for Extensible Markup Language, XML was officially adopted as a standard this past February by the World Wide Web Consortium--the ad hoc governors of the Web. Since then, a Who's Who of software companies--including Adobe Systems, IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, and Netscape Communications*(1,2)--have publicly committed to supporting the language..."
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1. [and] SoftQuad, Inc., a founding/charter member(s) W3C/DOM/XML steering committee's
2. all SoftQuad [HoTMetaL] Inc. short-list suitor targets |
