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Reflecting on the events of the conference and on our discipline in recent times, Tim Bray brings SGML/XML Europe to a lively conclusion. This closing keynote focuses on what a document is, or might be, starting in 1998. SGML work has focused mostly on documents in the traditional sense; how will the large-scale adoption of XML affect our understanding of documents? Further, with the rise of the web browser and the "document interface to everything", what are the distinguishing characteristics of documents, when do they matter, and what should we be worrying about? |