- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:40:18 -0400 (EDT)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, John Whelan wrote:
> 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.
Of course SGML has been changed. Now SGML documents don't require
declarations.
And as if fetching a file is that big a deal anyway.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
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