This is the mail archive of the
docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
mailing list for the DocBook project.
Re: Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: 01 Jun 2000 10:58:22 -0400
- References: <10005280140.aa23455@mammoth.sco.com> <shr9ajz128.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de>
- Reply-To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
/ Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> was heard to say:
| Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.COM> writes:
|
| > I'll be provocative and say that XML has a future
| > and SGML doesn't.
|
| Sorry, but XML is SGML. If you feel the need, do your authoring in SGML
| and convert to XML for processing the documents (or vice versa).
XML V1.0 is SGML. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that XML
V1.0+delta will also be SGML. In fact, schema languages other than DTD
syntax already break SGML compatibility at some level, at least
conceptually.
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Society is immoral and immortal;
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | it can afford to commit any kind
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | of folly, and indulge in any kind
| of vice; it cannot be killed, and
| the fraagments that survive can
| always laugh at the dead.--Henry
| Adams