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Subject: Re: XML
From: Morgon Kanter ####@####.####
Date: 11 Jul 2003 22:58:58 -0000
Message-Id: <20030711185826.4654a302.morgon@surgo.net>

This one time, at band camp, Gerardo Arnaez ####@####.#### wrote:
> I went ahead and wrote a small how to (for myself)
> and can not see the big difference between xml and
> sgml when writing docs

The reason you can't see a big difference is because there is none. 
XML just doesn't allow you to take any of the obfuscated shortcuts 
that SGML does (not allowing these is a Good Thing). EG, you can't do 
<para>Yo</>.

Morgon
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"Man is the only creature capable of hating itself" -- Governor of Japan 
in The End of Evangelion

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