Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web

Conclusions

Early days: When we planned this presentation in April 1998, we thought that by November this technology would be beginning to stabilise. It hasn't; it isn't ready for the real world yet.
Scope: XML and the family of proposals based around it could radically change the way we interact with all data and all machines: it has the potential to be far more pervasive than the Web is now.
Development could be very rapid: Given good document authoring, conversion and maintenance tools and at least one solid mass-market browser, conversion to XML could be very rapid indeed.

Author: Simon Brooke