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Derek Denny-Brown wrote: > >Or, if you would prefer, you could use shortref in SGML and parse the comma > >delimited files, making your input both a database dump and a valid SGML > >instance and your output valid XML. > > But using shortref would defeat the whole point of helping the documents to be > "self-describing". As part of the document, the DTD would act as a formal centralised reference rather than having to infer the structure by examination of the instances; I was alluding to data handling generally rather than the point you were making about self-describing documents. > There really is need of a good book, along the lines of of what Nelson Minar was > talking about when he refered to > >I'm reminded of what happened in the first few months of 1994, when a > >lot of people suddenly learned HTML. One of the most useful documents > >(for me) of that period was Eric Tilton's essay "Composing Good HTML" > and the need for something with XML. Such a task is much harder for XML since > XML can be used for many purposes. I agree, a flood of good books will be useful. I suspect that the diversity you mention will lead to smaller publications dealing with single or fairly tightly-grouped applications of XML. > I fail to understand how "the current discussion" is an "enemy of moderation and > controlled change". Sorry, that does read very badly. What I mean is that answers to XML issues should be given a fair chance to evolve naturally. HTML was allowed to be just a way to present documents while people figured out how to extend it in various directions. Although many lessons have been learned from HTML that XML can springboard from, I think there is some danger in the perception that XML is the best way to do almost everything. XML will be supplementary to what a number of organisations have been doing for a long time - for many it will just be a way of putting SGML on the web without converting to HTML first. "The current discussion" should of course go on - I also read it with interest. -- Regards Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... _______________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) email: info@a... Level 10, 91 York Street www: http://www.allette.com.au Sydney 2000 NSW Australia phone: +61 2 9262 4777 fax: +61 2 9262 4774 _______________________________________________________________ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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