Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 05/19/06 10:12

Fred <testing@testing1212mouse.com> trolled:

> Just about the time I have started to feel comfortable programming in
> HTML,

So why don't you go and establish comp.programming.html? Surely you would
get sufficient support for such a group, which is for some odd reason
nonexistent.

> this XML comes along.

Yeah, what a shock. We were all surprised when SGML appeared in 1980, and a
little less surprised when its oversimplification called XML started being
hyped around 1998.

> Would some kind soul pls post the
> difference between the two and why one is better than the other.

Oh, that's simple. HTML - XML = HTML, and HTML is better than XML just like
an apple is better than an orange.

> Thanks!

You're welcome. I hope you enjoyed your 5 minutes of attention.

Followups randomized, as usual for trollingly crossposted "questions".

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