- From: Steven J. DeRose <sjd@ebt.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:03:08 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 10:26 AM 09/19/96 -0400, Paul Prescod wrote: >I think we should expect XML browsers quickly, but should not depend on XML >editors.... We might, however, get SGML editor vendors (most of whom are represented here, so correct me if I'm wrong) to add a "Save as XML" feature -- most of them are doing something close to that already, since they don't generally minimize on output (if you're writing out SGML from a grove-like internal representation, it's easier and maybe faster to write out all the tags than to calculate whether any particular one is omissable). Likewise, adding a "convert SGML to XML" filter to any existing SGML parser looks pretty easy to me (it involves stuff like escaping more delimiters, adding omitted markup, expanding shortrefs, etc -- a lot like the SGML normalizer grail). Steve
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