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[Ray Waldin] > Of all the answers I've received, the ones referring me to SGML > publications were the most intimidating. If the intention is to > produce a "simple dialect of SGML" for its "ease of implementation", > having to retrace the historical minutiae of SGML in order to create > an XML DTD seems to defeat that purpose. It seems to me that > referring XML newbies (like me) to SGML publications is like asking > us to eat soup with a *BULLDOZER*. :) If there were XML publications, we'd refer you to them. As far as I know, I have *all* of them. _Presenting XML_'s first half is a good philosophical overview of the "why"s and "how"s of XML, but its second half, as well as most of _XML Complete_, is already obsolete because the specification is still changing. (Yes, I'm biased. By choosing to wait until the specs have stabilized to publish my book, I'll probably lose a certain amount of market share. But I'll be able to refer people to my book for technical answers with a clear conscience.) -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> 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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