- From: Michael Adams <linux_mike@paradise.net.nz>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:34:44 +1200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:47:56 +0200 Came this utterance formulated by Dag-Erling Smørgrav to my mailbox: > "Sean" <sean@mediamice.net> writes: > > XML and XHTML derive from the same Mummy:- SGML (Standard > > Generalised Markup Language), with HTML(HyperText Markup Language) > > being the big sister to XML (eXtensible Markup Language)and XHTML > > (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) being the toddler of the > > family but growing at a rate. > > Uh, no. HTML is an application of SGML, and XHTML 1.1 transitional is > an application of XML with the same (or nearly the same) semantics as > HTML 4.0. The first working draft of XML: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114.html [quote] Abstract Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an extremely simple dialect of SGML which is completely described in this document. The goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. For this reason, XML has been designed for ease of implementation, and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML. [/quote] So XML can rightly be seen as a child of SGML and therefore XHTML can also. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
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