Subject: Re: ESIS, Groves and XML From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:53:57 -0400 (EDT) |
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Daniel Mahler wrote: > Would an ESIS/(DOM|SAX) interface be a natural way > integrate SGML tools with XML tools? yes, in many ways it is. Be warned that ESIS throws things away that you may care about -- for example: comments white space gets SGML treatment white space within tags attributes may be reordered general entities may be silently expanded in place There are also SGML features in ESIS that XML tools cannot handle directly, such as SDATA entities. And of course, SGML tools may make use of PUBLIC identifiers to find things, when XML mandates the use of the SYSTEM identifier and allows a PUBLIC one effectively only as a comment. But if a subset is OK, it's a pretty easy way to go. Lee -- Liam Quin, Barefoot Computing, Toronto; The barefoot agitator l i a m q u i n at i n t e r l o g dot c o m Ankh on irc.sorcery.net, ankle5/Ankle{MD} on DALnet DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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