Re: ESIS, Groves and XML

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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