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Re: SGML on the Web

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: SGML on the Web
• From: Sam Hunting <shunting@e...>
• Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:32:20 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <024201c26d1c$5523b2f0$4bc8a8c0@A...>

> Finally, if anyone is involved in the same industries and tasks that SGML was
> developed for and continues to thrive in (large industrial technical/legal/reference
> publishing) then SGML has been shown time and time again to deliver. (Which is
> not to say that SGML is an automatic guarantee of success, or always suitable or 
> appropriate, any more than that using Java will guarantee Write-Once-Run-Everywhere 
> or that using a Microsoft product will guarantee virus infection.)  

Long time SGMLers (and owners of significant content) may be very
interested in a paper written by Patrick Durusau of the SBL and Matthew
OP'Donnel of OpenText entitled "Just-In-Time-Trees (JITTs): Next Step in
the Evolution of Markup" available at:

     http://sbl-site2.org/Extreme2002/

along with an implementation in XSLT.

JITTs promise a way to do CONCUR, DATATAG, and variant concrete syntaxes
right -- with great gains in efficiency. What would I do for a
JITT-enabled sp ...


Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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