Re: Andreessen on XML (InfoWorld)

James Clark (jjc@jclark.com)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:54:01 +0700


Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:

> Andreessen: No more than usual. With the open source
> code release on the client side, there are some XML
> parts in there now. And the XML working group in the
> W3C [World Wide Web Consortium] has -- because the
> Navigator source code is available -- decided Navigator
> should be the delivery vehicle for the reference
> implementation of XML. So they're putting the reference
> implementation of XML out of the working group into
> the Navigator source code themselves.

I think this is marketing speak for "Mozilla is using a freely
available, conforming XML parser written by a member of the XML working
group".

James