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emotionml

The W3C has written a proposed spec for smilies (emoticons) in XML (actually an incubator group document, writes reader Karl):

<emotionml
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2008/11/emotionml" 
  xmlns:everydayEmotions="http://www.example.com/everyday_emotion_catg_tags">
    <emotion>
        <category name="everydayEmotions:disbelief"/>
    </emotion>
</emotionml>

del.icio.us user wearehugh writes, “it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish W3C specs from Onion articles.”