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Re: SGML complexity

• From: Tei <oscar.vives@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:41:50 +0200

On 9/8/06, sterling <sstouden@t...> wrote:
>
> As I see the market need, it is universal, not niche. The real market is
> for a universal solution capable of solving any demand for ordered data
> presentations.  Few want to learn some of the 20000000000000000000
> different --ml languages for each segment of it.
>
> Most want a language like English, that can be used to present and
> express anything that comes up.  SGML does that.   It takes about 15 years
> for  members of the general population to learn the English language, how
> long  would it  take for the general population to learn SGML?  English is
> one of the most hated sujects in grammar and high school and I think SGML
> would be too, but it is the only language that could be truly universal.
>

Coo! !
XML is somewhat like tools like Bison and Yacc. You have a problem?
you write a lang. So we have only one lang XML, but
20000000000000000000 langs generated from XML.
You only need to learn Bison, Yacc and XML once.

• References:
  • RE: SGML complexity
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • RE: SGML complexity
    • From: sterling <sstouden@t...>