At 1:22 PM -0400 9/2/03, Rosen, Brian wrote:
I think there are quite a few reasons. Mine are:
1) Ability to render in alternate ways to improve
readability and accessibility
Please be more specific on "accessibility". Which groups of people
are currently excluded, or would be much more included with XML
documents?
2) Ability to cross reference documents
That benefit only appears if all, or a significant proportion, of the
Internet Drafts are in XML or a similar format. That's not what you
proposed.
3) More uniformity in, e.g. references
In what way is that helpful? Are there kinds of references commonly
used now that don't work well?
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