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• Subject: attribute appearance
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:02:00 -0400

When did attributes appear in SGML (and its predecessors)?

Charles Goldfarb has an interesting piece of markup at:
http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm

It includes this nice bit of shockingly readable but attribute-free DCF
GML:

:h1.Chapter 1:  Introduction
:p.GML supported hierarchical containers, such as
:ol
:li.Ordered lists (like this one),
:li.Unordered lists, and
:li.Definition lists
:eol.
as well as simple structures.
:p.Markup minimization (later generalized and formalized in SGML),
allowed the end-tags to be omitted for the "h1" and "p" elements.


The SGML Handbook (wisely) doesn't explain much about the history of
markup components, but if anyone has a moment to explain this bit of
history, I'd be curious.

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