[oclug]standards and protocols

[tOM Trottier]

I think (no XML expert) that XML is almost all a content standard. 

But protocol standards can specify what XML-compliant messages mean. 
Protocol standards have to use content standards or contain their own.

tOM

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 1:12
Shad Young <oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 01:12, Dave O'Neill wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:58:52AM -0500, Shad Young wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think I see. So html is the subset of http as Chris Hulan said? HTML
> > > could then be called the API as it exposes the elements of the protocol?
> > 
> > Nope, HTML isn't a subset of HTTP.  HTML is just a data format that can be
> > transmitted over the HTTP protocol. 
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> What about XML? Doesn't it contain some of the elements tOM described?
> 
> Shad
> 
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