Re: [xml-dev] SGML complexity

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Re: [xml-dev] SGML complexity
On 9/8/06, sterling <> wrote:
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> As I see the market need, it is universal, not niche. The real market is
> for a universal solution capable of solving any demand for ordered data
> presentations.  Few want to learn some of the 20000000000000000000
> different --ml languages for each segment of it.
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> Most want a language like English, that can be used to present and
> express anything that comes up.  SGML does that.   It takes about 15 years
> for  members of the general population to learn the English language, how
> long  would it  take for the general population to learn SGML?  English is
> one of the most hated sujects in grammar and high school and I think SGML
> would be too, but it is the only language that could be truly universal.
>

Coo! !
XML is somewhat like tools like Bison and Yacc. You have a problem?
you write a lang. So we have only one lang XML, but
20000000000000000000 langs generated from XML.
You only need to learn Bison, Yacc and XML once.