Component Markup Language

[Mark Birbeck]

> One cannot rely on "HTML 5" as a solution to this problem. The next
> generation of HTML will not provide any such facilities. Information
> about the nature of the next generation HTML can be obtained 
> by reading
> current Working Draft:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-html-in-xml-19981205/

Can people please be specific, so I can see if I have lost the plot
here:

If I was to propose a component-XML DTD that began with a tag called
HTML, then others called HEAD and BODY, and it had definitions for text
fields, buttons, drop-boxes, images, tables and more, as well as being
able to call up external programs and all the rest of it; what
ADDITIONAL features is everyone saying they would want to be present in
*their* component-XML that are not in 'mine' (and I really think the
lack of graphics on a button is insufficient justification for spending
the next year writing an entire XHTML!)

I'm not saying that the user-interface has to then be a web browser -
make it Java if you want. All I'm saying is there is a very good syntax
in place for defining user interfaces - why not use it?

Mark Birbeck
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