Why Don’t They Just Add More Descriptive Tags to HTML?

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What’s the Fundamental Concept Here
Figure 1.1: XML is to HTML what a blueprint is to a picture. Is HTML Obsolete

Why Don’t They Just Add More Descriptive Tags to HTML?
More descriptive tags aren’t added to HTML mainly because it’s too hard to think of a set
of tags that would describe every type of data in existence. It is easier to create a
standard method
of creating tags to describe your data so that you can richly represent
your data.
What’s the Fundamental Concept Here?
The fundamental concept is that XML allows you to separate data from display, and once
you know the structure of a data set, you can do more things with it. To draw an analogy,
think of a picture of a building versus its blueprint. With a picture, you can only see the
building from one angle. Feed a picture into a computer, and it won’t do very much
beyond displaying it as is. Feed a blueprint into a computer, and you can generate 3-D
views, change the layout, and try different arrangements. The view of the building from
the angle in the picture is, therefore, just one of many of the results that can be achieved
by manipulating the blueprint. Analogy:
Information stored in an XML format is a
blueprint, whereas information represented in HTML is just a picture (see Figure 1.1).

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Figure 1.1:
XML is to HTML what a blueprint is to a picture.
Is HTML Obsolete?
HTML is a great technology. For many of us, it has changed the way we live and even
think by assisting what Vanevar Bush in 1945 called our
associative indexing
thought
processes. HTML is one with the Web. Are we really going to get rid of it altogether? Is
no technology holy?
First off, no technology is holy. We create technologies so that we can break them down
and replace them with something better. That being said, we still have a need to display
information, and we humans want visually appealing sites. XML is not going to change
our fundamental desires as humans. So, no, HTML is not doomed or obsolete. It will still
be around for some time. XML is not out to replace HTML; it’s there to complement it and
to perform a function that HTML was never designed for in the first place.

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