At 12:37 PM 10/11/96 EDT, lee@sq.com wrote: >It's not clear to what extent XML has to be backwards-compatible with >SGML, and in what ways, in order to succeed, and I am trying to probe >that boundary. For example, it seems to have been agreeed that there >will be application conventions that an SGML system wouldn't know about, >and clearly if you have no DTD, most SGML systems are hosed. An area worth probing indeed; but in fact I know of no such application conventions that are apt to make it into XML. At the current time it seems that XML will be a very pure subset of 8879, with the possible exception of RS/RE rules. Cheers, Tim Bray tbray@textuality.com http://www.textuality.com/ +1-604-488-1167Received on Friday, 11 October 1996 20:05:43 EDT
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