xml-dev - Re: Is anybody working on ...

[David Megginson <ak117@freenet.carleton.ca>]

Paul Prescod writes:

 > Still, it isn't wrong to use Java in a way that is tied to a
 > particular platform nor to use SGML in a way that is tied to a
 > particular formatter.  I think that we agree on that central point.

I don't think that that's the suggestion (though I agree that it would
be a possible application of SGML/XML).  Rather, the suggestion is
that people may need to encode physical information about a text when
that information is required for useful processing, possibly with a
wide range of XML processing tools.  More controversially, you could
say that the formatting information is semantically-significant.


All the best,


David

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