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 Mark L. Fussell wrote: > > SGML is designed to describe information, and although the original vision > may have been focused on describing documents I believe that was just > because it was the particular task at hand. I think that you have this backwards. SGML was designed to represented documents and insofar as documents share properties with some other types of information, SGML can represent other information. I see no reason to believe that a single notation could efficiently represent all forms of information. If we take this to an extreme then most people seem to agree: how soon do you expect we will represent bitmapped graphics in XML? My personal rule of thumb is that it is okay to represent some non-document data type in SGML/XML if it is convenient to do so without extending SGML/XML in a way that would make it less appropriate for dealing with documents. Suboptimal extensions would be those that confuse the organizational principles of SGML or make it more complicated to implement or understand (such as complex validity constraints). Paul Prescod xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 
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