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Richard Light writes: > This is exactly the sort of problem which adopting the 'grove plan' > approach is meant to deal with. In line with your suggestion, the SGML > property set starts with the class sgmldoc, or 'SGML document', which is > 'the parsed SGML document. The root of the grove.' > > In my view, XAPI should be taking advantage of this existing framework > (and naming conventions) where it is relevant to XML's requirements. > Didn't someone do a summary of the relevant classes and properties a > couple of months back? I agree with Richard. Like SGML, groves can be very complicated or simple, as required, and XML can easily use a simple model -- just enforce a single list of supported modules, as XML enforces a single SGML feature list and declaration. Why redo all of the work for XML that's already been done in the HyTime annex and DSSSL standard? I can see no advantage in re-inventing the wheel for XML: it will simply force software and documentation to support two different, incompatible approaches. I do agree that we need more and better documentation on groves, but we will need to document a proprietary XML approach as well. For more on the grove support currently available in SP (for full SGML and XML), see http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/grove.html All the best, David -- David Megginson ak117@f... Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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