- From: Bert Bos <bbos@mygale.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:57:42 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
James Clark writes: > At 21:22 14/05/97 +0200, Bert Bos wrote: > > >That is not much of a reason. XML is not SGML, except very > >superficially. > > XML *is* SGML. The spec explicitly lists as one of the design goals: > > XML shall be compatible with SGML. > > This has been a goal of the XML effort from the very beginning. It is a > goal that has had an enormous impact on the design of XML and it is a goal > that has been achieved: all XML documents are conforming SGML documents (or > will be in a couple of months once the SGML TC passes). This is ironic. The goal was to have *existing SGML software* read XML documents, not to make XML SGML-compatible coûte que coûte. I know about the TC. It fixes some problems with SGML but it is a band-aid. Useful for some people, no doubt, but irrelevant for XML. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People/Bos/ INRIA/W3C bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 4 93 65 77 71 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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