Subject: Re: (dsssl) The Future of DSSSL: Concrete proposals From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:40:58 +0000 |
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:30:44PM +0100, Javier Farreres wrote: > to do with SGML nor XML. But upon reading the XML standard, > it is very clearly a language designed for internet transmission, > and its design aims go for easy of parsing and such. SGML is > designed as a general markup language be careful of judging XML by what it was designed to be. what matters is what it has become. A few years back, many people predicted that XML would not take the place of SGML, since it was designed for something different; my view of the situation today is that XML has completely taken over the role that SGML head, for good or bad. > XML people want to use it, they will be able to. As I see, the main differente > between SGML and XML is namespaces and the beginning of the use of schemas, rather than DTDs > Anyway I think the real aim is not SGML, but HyTime. does anyone still believe that HyTime will ever come into meaningful use? > W3C people didn't take groves into account because they didn't understand it. probably true. unfortunately, they run the world :-} Still, I dont think any of this matters to what you propose, so I think you deserve thanks and support for pushing this -- Sebastian Rahtz OUCS Information Manager 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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