- From: Robert Streich <streich@slb.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 06:50:18 -0600
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 09:01 PM 2/20/97 -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, unless you >have somehow managed to come up with a way to use SHORTREF that could not >be equivalently expressed with tags. It is a cross-translation, since any >SGML DTD and any XML DTD should be able to operate at the same level of >abstraction. This seems a strange comment coming from you, David. Any time you reduce a grammar, you reduce expressibility. Any time you reduce expressibility, you lose information. bob Robert Streich streich@slb.com Schlumberger voice: 1 512 331 3318 Austin Research fax: 1 512 331 3760
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