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At Thursday, 28 June 2001, Marcus Carr <mrc@a...> wrote: >SwetaG@r... wrote: > >> I have many times read when i am going through the XML tutorials that >> SGML is to complex to be to be implem,ented for the web senario > >I've read that too...:-) Actually it was untrue. SGML was perfectly usable over the Web, and still is provided you have the right software. The CELT project (celt.ucc. ie) has a big collection of SGML (TEI) files of historical documents and they are still available as plain SGML for use with the Panorama or MultiDoc Pro browsers, complete with stylesheets, DTDs, and catalogs. However, as both browsers are no longer available, it's all being moved into XML, so the ancillary files are offline for the moment. Setting it up was fiddly, but once done it worked perfectly, and the browsers (Panorama even came as a plugin for Netscape) gave you an excellent formatted display with programmable navigation bar, context-sensitive search, and HyTime linking. I just posted to xml-dev about XLink, which now makes similar linking features available to XML. It is undoubtedly more complex to set up than HTML or XML, but by no means impossible. When XML browsers eventually implement context-sensitive searching and all the linking goodies, we'll finally be back to where we were in 1994 :-) ///Peter
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