- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:25:17 -0400 (EDT)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Frank Boumphrey wrote:
> > The difficultly of making an SGML parser is probably overblown.
>
> having written parsers for both i can assure you that it is not!!
>
> Writing a non-validating XML parser is quite simple. Also if you want a
> validating parser there is a whole series of XML parsers that can be had for
> the asking. Incorporating them in your soft ware takes no more than a few
> lines of code.
No doubt writing a XML is much much much easier than writing an SGML
paser. But still. How many lines does it take to incoperate nsgmls into
your code?
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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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