ESIS, Groves and XML

Subject: ESIS, Groves and XML
From: Daniel Mahler <dmahler@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:27:43 -0500
"Frank A. Christoph" wrote:

> >    My understanding is that ESIS streams don't really have to do with
> > groves.  When you parse an SGML document, there is a whole range of
> > information that the parser can generate.  ESIS is just a standard
> > subset of this information.  I believe, if you just run the "nsgmls"
> > utility (from SP), it will generate ESIS for your document.
> 
> Yes, ESIS is a standardized subset of the information in an SGML document;
> in particular, it encompasses approximately the "structural" information.
> This includes, for example, the element tree, but not whitespace
> information; more significantly, ESIS does not distinguish between what part
> of the data was given by an entity reference and what part was given
> concretely. The notion of ESIS is described in Appendix B, Attachment 1 of
> the SGML standard (p. 588 of the Goldfarb book).
> 

This sounds roughly compatible with XML's DOM (or SAX?).
Would an ESIS/(DOM|SAX) interface be a natural way
integrate SGML tools with XML tools?


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