discuss: XML
Subject:
Re: XML
From:
Ari Makela ####@####.####
Date:
12 Jul 2003 04:54:56 -0000
Message-Id: <20030712045450.GC12017@lagavulin.sappho.net>
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:58:26PM -0400, Morgon Kanter wrote:
> 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</>.
Another important difference is that elements are case-sensitive in XML.
In DocBook SGML one can unfortunately write <ChaPtEr> but in DocBook XML
you must write <chapter>.
For the politically inclined it may be important that XML is completely
open format unlike SGML. AFAIK there are no practical problems with
SGML, though.
Personally I prefer XML because it's stricter, simpler and very well
supported by many programming languages. XSLT makes life often very
simple, too.
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Ari Makela ####@####.#### http://arska.org/hauva/
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