discuss: XML
Subject:
Re: XML
From:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
12 Jul 2003 01:08:02 -0000
Message-Id: <1057972300.8786.8.camel@mysticchild>
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 15:58, Morgon Kanter wrote:
> 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</>.
Right, and with a few differences in the first couple of lines, it
really is the same. For DocBook, anyway. I can usually take just about
any DocBook SGML file, just change the top couple of lines, save as XML
and have it parse perfectly.
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Tabatha Marshall
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