Re: (dsssl) XML not appropriate for TEI: (was Hypothetical question on namespaces)

["M. Wroth" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:14 AM 10/5/01 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Trent Shipley writes:
>
>  > -- It has very flexible facilities for defining the morphology of its own
>  > concrete lexis (called the concrete syntax in the standard).
>  > ---- (One suspects that the flexibility in the concrete grammar was 
> partly to
>  > ease assimilation of existing mark-up languages to SGML)
> and did anyone ever use it like that? a colleague of mine once tried
> to make SGML parse LaTeX, but gave up :-}


I've made some tentative attempts to make SGML parse a database (fields 
separated by "|" and records by EOL).  I convinced myself that I could make 
it work, but then the project got shelved, so I never completed it.


Mark B. Wroth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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