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Not real sure what is meant here, but IADS has
and always has had a well-formed SGML approach
that formatted "on the fly". It is still out
there working. It uses a stylesheet driven
approach.
This is a concern for anyone? The format on
the fly issue was settled years ago. I think some
folks draw all their SGML history from the
batch print community. If so, you are missing
the important lessons. Unfortunately, a lot
of the SGML hypertext work (not EBT) was done
on the military side. Panorama was such a
latecomer to SGML hypertext, it barely mattered;
it was, also unfortunately, an SGML community
darling. If survival is "what matters", IADS
survived in its niche.
len
From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard@redhat.com]
Possibly, but the end result is there, some bug or performances problems
get fixed, others don't. I was arguing against a statement that XML was
pure hype and less sophisticated. It may be hype but there is more
implementations to choose from, it may be less sophisticated but in practice
things which were looking impossible with the previous toolchain becomes
possible like formatting on the fly upon user request. One could probably
had done that on SGML too, but not with free software apparently. The
sophistication trade-off have a serious impact in that area.
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