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[Sean Mc Grath <digitome@i...>:] > Version 2 : SGML - Generic Markup > <p><i>Customer</i>Joe Bloggs</p> Maybe the <p> is generic markup, but the <i> is procedural markup, not generic markup. > Version 3 : SGML - Data Modelling > <Customer>Joe Bloggs</Customer> The above is generic markup, for sure. "Generic" means "according to kind". "Generic markup" means markup that indicates *what kind of thing* is being delimited, rather than *what to do with the thing* that is being delimited. The latter is usually called "procedural markup". > I think for some poople, SGML is all about > Version 2 above. Entire books have been written that > use SGML to abstract the concepts of "paragraph", > "artwork" etc. from the typographic codes required to > achieve the result. Ain't it the truth. Well, evidently it's a useful attitude. > Somewhere along the line, people started thinking > as in version 3 above. I have no idea when this > started to happen. Anyone out there know? I think it was long before there was SGML. The radical implications of the modeling power of DTDs still escape most people, even though they were surprisingly well understood right at the outset. I think SGML's roots are firmly in generic markup, way back to the mid-1960s and the precursorial beginnings of the GenCode committee. I don't know the details, but the history is long, has many details, and is only slightly contentious. Norm Scharpf, President of the GCA, is one authority on the early history. -Steve -- Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc. srn@t... http://www.techno.com ftp.techno.com voice: +1 972 231 4098 (at ISOGEN: +1 214 953 0004 x137) fax +1 972 994 0087 (at ISOGEN: +1 214 953 3152) 3615 Tanner Lane Richardson, Texas 75082-2618 USA 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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