- From: Robert Streich <streich@slb.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:27:14 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 02:50 PM 10/22/96 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >So: what applications are going to become severely XML-impaired >if we lack the nice out-of-band SDATA signaling mechanism? Concrete >examples would be the most valuable input. 95% of the documents that I deal with now have extensive math in them. If I had the right tables I could tell you more specifically how many of them contain characters not in Unicode. I have to admit that I could continue to do the same thing with them as I do now: run them through TeX (I still find it hard to believe how dependent I am on that wonderful life saver) and render them as GIF, but if I'm stuck with that then there's one more thing that I don't get from XML that it seems HTML will provide for....hmmmmm. bob Robert Streich streich@slb.com Schlumberger voice: 1 512 331 3318 Austin Research fax: 1 512 331 3760
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