Summary
There is a consensus among Web developers that although HTML has served a vital purpose in making the Web what it is today, something must be done about the future. More specifically, there needs to be some kind of long-term solution to the lack of structure in HTML documents, which has led to poor coding, browser leniency, and proprietary browser extensions. HTML has evolved so rapidly, out of sheer necessity, that no one has had time to think about whether HTML is really suited for the types of problems it's being used to solve. Until recently, that is. The W3C has been thinking about this problem quite seriously and has forged a solution that will change the future of HTML dramatically. Not surprisingly, XML weighs heavily in the ...
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