> Intelligent RE handling is *essential* to good (=accurate) document > representation I would say rather intelligently _designed_ whitespace handling... For example, TeX has a uniform and regular rule, but it does not involve the concept of records. You either have white space or you don't, just as in most modern programming languages. I don't mean to comment on the design of the SGML white space mechanism here, by the way. But I think it necessary to consider things as a whole: SGML is doing a lot more than XML, and many of its rules wil be more complex than those of XML -- or XML wouldn't be simpler. Lee -- Liam Quin, SoftQuad Inc | lq-text freely available Unix text retrieval lee@sq.com +1 416 544-9000 | FAQs: Metafont fonts, OPEN LOOK UI, OpenWindows SGML: http://www.sq.com/ | We've moved; new 'phone number & postal address! The barefoot programmer | `who is my neighbour?'Received on Monday, 23 September 1996 20:00:19 EDT
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