- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:02:47 +0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 21:01 20/02/97 -0500, David Durand wrote: >At 8:20 PM +0000 2/20/97, Digitome Ltd. wrote: >>I aggree. But I *do* wish we could stop referring to SGML files as "legacy". >>Surely SGML->XML is a "down-translation" not an "up-translation". > >Afraid not. You lose no information in going from SGML to XML, ... > Actaully, there are a few exceptions: as far as I can tell, the only >place where we lose information with the current draft is in some rare >content model with mixed content, in SDATA, where a meaningful string must >be hand-translated to a numeric code, and separately documented, and >(hopefully not for long), with PUBLIC, where a location independent >perpetually valid identifier must be replaced with a method that depends on >a particular technical infrastructure for resolution. Also you lose information about external data entities: data attributes are lost along with the distinction between NDATA, SDATA and CDATA entities. James
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