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? DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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