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Re: SGML vs XML

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>
To: Trevor Jenkins <trevor dot jenkins at suneidesis dot com>
Cc: fyl2xp1 <vnhu38f93 at subdimension dot com>,DocBook applications <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 12:02:13 +0200
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SGML vs XML
References: <002201c2226f$b892ae10$0f11bc93@htrtttt><Pine.LNX.4.44.0207030933210.9698-100000@suneidesis>

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0000, Trevor Jenkins wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, fyl2xp1 <vnhu38f93@subdimension.com> wrote:
> 
> > My advantages and disadvantages to going XML are as follows:
> > [Note, this is XML and SGML primarily in the context of DocBook]
> 
> There are "features" of SGML that have not been incorporated into XML.

To get the best of both worlds, you can use SGML, and, should you want to
use an XSL toolchain, use sx (aka sgml2xml) as an intermediate step.

Regards,
-- 
Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com>                 http://www.alcove.com/
Technical support manager                Responsable de l'assistance technique
Senior Free-Software Consultant          Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres
Debian developer (dirson@debian.org)                        Développeur Debian

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