- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 17:46:36 -0500
- To: Peter Flynn <pflynn@m-net.arbornet.org>
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Peter Flynn wrote: > > Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > Aren't large, complex documents with large, > complex DTDs the reason we are *here*? > > No, that's what "full" SGML is for. The ethos of XML is simplicity, > isn't it? I don't believe the simplicity of XML is inconsistent with large, complex documents. But I don't expect that those large, complex documents will fit into the web context without at least a little bit of engineering effort. Information providers who want to preserve their investment in SGML should expect to do a little bit of work to interoperate with the explosion of dead-simple XML tools and clients that I expect to see. It's not like large complex documents are a square peg and XML is a round hole, but the folks with those large documents should be prepared to shave off the corners a bit. -- Dan Connolly, Architecture Domain Lead http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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