From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Mar 10 2005 - 13:48:55 CST
Dear God, I cut my teeth on SGML over 20 yrs ago (that was in purely
academic circles, which we must can add to Philippe's 'edition and news
industries' ref. below). SGML still wins hands down over everything else
for stability, robustness, reversibility, platform-independence and
longevity (or so I believe).
mg
Scríobh Philippe Verdy:
> ...
>
> Yes but XML is not the only choice. You can create non strictly hierarchical
> markup with SGML instead of XML.
>
> SGML parsing is much more complicate than XML, but SGML has been used since
> much longer in the edition and news industries, and it allows creating
> several parallel hierarchies on the same document.
>
> With XML, the only way to do that is to split the document into as many leaf
> nodes as needed, give them each a distinct id, and then create separate
> hierarchies with references to the actual node ids....
-- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * mgunn@egt.ie * eamonn@egt.ie *
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