- From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 14:21:51 PST
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, hoymand@gate.net
- Cc: Michael.Mealling@oit.gatech.edu, uri@bunyip.com
Larry writes: >Just as HTML doesn't require all browsers to implement all of SGML, but allows SGML-based tools to be used on HTML documents, we could use SGML syntax, but require that a 'URC' be in some canonical form, to facilitate easier handling by simpler tools. I say again, this won't work if the "canonical form" cannot be expressed in a DTD and SGML declaration. "Using SGML syntax" means just that, or it doesn't mean very much at all. Michael Sperberg-McQueen has outlined the desirable SGML toggles for achieving simplicity: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Autools/sperberg-mcqueen/sperberg.html I strongly recommend it. Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 103A Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html
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