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Re: Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?


/ 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

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