Adopting XML: Slide 18

Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web

Will you have to change what you do?

HTML documents will continue to work with XML browsers.
May need to be more correct than at present.
Correct HTML documents (i.e. ones which validate) are very easy to convert to XML. Automatic conversion will be possible.
Increasingly, search engines will depend on XML-based metadata.
Increasingly, mainstream browsers will exploit XML-based metadata.
Conclusion: no, but...
Prediction: commercial Web authors who don't change won't stay in business.

Author: Simon Brooke