- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:29:56 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > 2) The complexity of SGML is not needed. Pretending that HTML is an > application of SGML server no practical purpose. The above is a severe misunderstanding of the history of HTML... SGML helped *a lot* because it allowed us to write a DTD. And a DTD was necessary to design the model. And even if HTML does not use the full power (and complexity) of SGML, making HTML become an SGML application was a key factor in the standardization process of HTML. Note: cc to whatwg removed, I can't post there </Daniel>
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