- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:26:11 -0500
- To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
- CC: lee@sq.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>I don't think that there is a system that is simpler than SGML which is also >100% interoperable with SGML tools. Making all REs significant certainly >wouldn't. Some SGML tools use them to format output to make it more human >readable (and I like that!!!). Do NOT say RE when you mean newline. That is the whole source of confusion here (the fact that people look upon them as one and the same). I think have all data be significant in all cases to be a great win: especially for identity tranforms and parser validation (ie. validation of parsers).
Received on Saturday, 16 November 1996 13:27:40 UTC