- From: John Whelan <whelan@itp.unibe.ch>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:02:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Russell O'Connor laments > But for some reason SGML is just to difficult to parse. I don't see why > James Clark can write an SGML parser and give it away, but large companies > with hundreds of employees can't manage. XML, unlike SGML, can be parsed without a DTD, which seems like the major selling point of XHTML; XML browsers can be forward-compatible without fetching a separate file to tell them whether they've just passed a start tag or a stand-alone. John T. Whelan whelan@iname.com http://www.slack.net/~whelan/
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