- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:26:07 +0100
- To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- CC: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 14/01/2014 11:10 , "Martin J. Dürst" wrote: > 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. Sorry if I was unclear. W3C did *use* SGML (in a limited fashion) but was never in charge of it. SGML is an SC34 thing. So we didn't get to deprecate it (though we did get to stop using it — or more accurately to stop pretending we were using it). > The way I would put it is that SGML DTD(s) just died a quiet death, > without the need for any tombstones or such. Precisely. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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