- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:57:48 -0500
- To: W3C-SGML-WG@w3.org
At 5:36 AM 11/11/96, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote: >On Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:14:33 -0500, "Eve L. Maler" <elm@arbortext.com> wrote: > >>At 07:47 PM 11/10/96 GMT, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote: >>>On Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:17:15 -0800, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote: >> >>>... >> >>>>Existing SGML tools can, if they're compliant, read XML today modulo >>>>*only* overlapping enumerated attribute values and perhaps some >>>>mild inconsistencies as to which RE's are where. >>> >>>The former makes XML *not* conforming SGML. > >You didn't address this point, Eve. Because we have all agreed to bite the bullet here. SGML'97 has the opportunity to fix this problem for SGML, but we can't wait. >Conforming SGML means that any conforming system will produce the same ESIS. At >present, an XML document is not conforming SGML. This is not true. The ESIS definition is not normative text. The standard itself is hopelessly ambiguous on the subject of what is and is not to be produced by an SGML processor, defining only a syntactic acceptance procedure (Exoterica's whitepaper on whitespace is quite informative in this regard). You may _wish_ that the ESIS was normative text, but it is _not_. >>>> XML is a subset of SGML >True, but it is the parsing that determines conformance, and you haven't >refuted >my point: XML at present is not conforming SGML. But I have. Except for the attribute value thing. But that is still impossible to justify in the absence of minimization, and you have already declared that you would be willing to fix in in SGML '97. If we lead by a year, what's the harm? -- David RE delenda est. I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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