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Ray Waldin wrote: > Of all the answers I've received, the ones referring me to SGML publications were the > most intimidating. If the intention is to > produce a "simple dialect of SGML" for its "ease of implementation", having to > retrace the historical minutiae of SGML in order to create an XML DTD seems to defeat > that purpose. The question was related to a philosophical issue that has been hashed out by SGML people for ten years now, and that applies directly to XML as well. You need not know all of the details - some books, such as Chet Ensign's 'SGML: The Billion Dollar Secret' discusses SGML from a high-level perspective. Nobody's going to make you memorise the white-space rules around included elements.... :-) > It seems to me that referring XML newbies (like me) to SGML publications is like > asking us to eat soup with a *BULLDOZER*. :) Don't be scared off - not everything to do with SGML is rocket science. Much of it is just XML by another name. > Starve or drown. What we need is an XML spoon to properly devour this feast. > Anyhow, thanks for letting me slurp! :) Sorry Goldilocks, such a beast takes time to make. Until then, you'll either have to make do with Baby Bear's or Papa Bear's spoon. I suggest Papa Bear's, but only fill it up half way. -- 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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