[tei-council] Question regarding TEI influence

[Dan O'Donnell]

Hi all,

I have a question I want to ask here we everybody knows how stupid I can 
be, rather than on TEI-L where it might shock and appal.

I was having a conversation with somebody sometime recently when they 
said that the TEI doesn't do enough to advertise its historical 
importance on the development of the modern internet, particularly XML. 
When I have these kinds of conversations with others, I mention the fact 
that one of our original editors went on to play a leading role in the 
development of the XML spec, and that XPath is indebted heavily to our 
XPointer syntax.

Are there other things? And is that last claim really as true as I make 
it sound? I'd be interested in making up a list of technology the TEI 
has influenced.

-dan

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