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Re: RE: Sky is falling again...

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• Subject: Re: RE: Sky is falling again...
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 11:40:01 -0400
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10/8/2002 11:28:14 AM, Sam Hunting <shunting@e...> wrote:

> I remember writing a DTD several years ago that
>implemented the Bluebook standard for legal citations using
>SHORTREF. Since it was SGML, no "custom code" was required to handle it,
>and if you wanted SGML angle brackets, you used sgmlnorm. (This could be
>viewed as a recognition that whitespace and punctujation were the first
>forms of markup.)
>
>It should be stressed that such a document was in fact 100% valid
>SGML, even though it looked like (and was) also a little language. It
>didn't need to be transformed into order to be valid, that is.

I meant "transformation" loosely enough to cover what you're talking about :-)

So, I think you answered my question: One can write an SGML DTD using
SHORTREFs that defines a "little language", and use the sp tools to 
"transform" it into something an XML parser might handle.  

Next question -- what arguments might one offer to someone who would
prefer to whip up a yacc grammar or some Perl/Python regexp code (c.f.
the one-line Python parser for RSS 3.0) rather than use SGML to define
the little language?

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