- From: Digitome Ltd. <digitome@iol.ie>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 11:32:46 +0000
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> >>> I aggree. But I *do* wish we could stop referring to SGML files as "legacy". >>> Surely SGML->XML is a "down-translation" not an "up-translation". > >I don't think vertical terms are applicable. Since the element structures of >both forms are the same, I don't think there's vertical motion involved at all. Whatever the direction, I do not think the use of the word "legacy" for SGML will help our cause at all and I think we should stop using it. . It does not accurately portray the SGML/XML relationship . To SGML people, "legacy" is a state your data leaves when you place it in SGML. If having got it there is it now "legacy" with respect to XML what happens to all that open systems, future proofing, spiel I swallowed from the salesman? I'll buy into "foo"-translation where "foo" is anything other than "up" for describing SGML->XML. Sean
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