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- From: Marcus Carr <mrc@allette.com.au>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:19:32 +1000
Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> 2) SGML'86 allows different implementation to implement only parts
> of the optional feature set, but did not provide a way to name or manage
> these (i.e., invoking the SGML declaration using a formal public
> identifier).
> This in turn made it too difficult to create any brand identity: the
> document
> could not self-describe its brand of syntax. XML is largely a specific
> Web-SGML declaration with a good brand-identity mechanism.
Good point. I think that for large SGML datasets it was taken for granted that you might have
to do something to the data before it was really usable for your purposes. With XML's tendency
toward smaller and more agile datasets though, this is an unacceptable cost. I like the idea
of XML being (among many other things) the ultimate normalisation of SGML data.
> (N.b. despite the Allette email address, I don't work there. I just
> keeping an
> email account there.)
Yes, and I think you might have left something in the fridge last time you were in the
country... :-)
--
Regards,
Marcus Carr email: mrc@allette.com.au
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