- From: Joe English <joe@trystero.art.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:59:03 PST
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Terje@in-Progress.com (Terje Norderhaug) wrote: > At 8:44 PM 1/29/97, Mark Gaither wrote: > HtmlScript is very far from from aherance to SGML philosphy, in contrast to > what is stated in their press releases. "Command" tags such as <HIDE> <IF> > and for assignments <LET> should be clear examples of how it conflict with > the philosphy of descriptive markup of SGML. This and the many other tools > based on command tags are a step backwards, whether they can be described > with a DTD or not. Not necessarily... SGML can be used to represent command scripts just as well as it can structured data (well, almost as well; personally I think it makes for a rather awkward syntax but there's nothing inherently wrong with it from a philosophical point of view.) See for example the MID project [1], which does something similar (MID is the Metafile for Interactive Documents, a document type used for building IETMs (interactive electronic technical manuals)). [1] MID: <URL: http://navycals.dt.navy.mil/mid/mid.html > --Joe English joe@art.com
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