- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:10:53 +0900
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- CC: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2014/01/14 18:49, Robin Berjon wrote: > On 13/01/2014 23:28 , Alex Russell wrote: >> Has schema-language deprecation ever been done before at the W3C? > > There is no precedent that I'm aware of. > >> Was there a sunset on SGML? > > W3C never handled SGML, Wrong. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/#minitoc and in particular e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/sgmldecl.html. > and if there were any SGML DTDs in use when XML > came up I think they were just replaced. XHTML1 indeed replaced the HTML4 SGML DTD with an XML DTD. The way I would put it is that SGML DTD(s) just died a quiet death, without the need for any tombstones or such. Regards, Martin.
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