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At 11:14 05/08/98 +0200, Patrice Bonhomme wrote: > >I think that XML is really becoming HTML. I though that XML should be "a >simplify subset of SGML" but it seems to be like the "Supra HTML >recommandation". No. There are already many applications which have very little resemblance to HTML. For example WIDL, CDF, XML-Data, DublinCore, RDF, XSL, Chemical Markup Language, etc. In principle most of these can be managed by namespaces and (hopefully) compound documents can be created which contain several of them. Also, XML is a metalanguage - HTML is not. XML allows the extension and the specification of an indefinitely large set of applications of which XHTML (of whatever flavour) is simply one. An important one - which is why we frequently post examples of it. > [...] >We could also put the Element declaration (content model, attribute list >declaration) as a set of "ghost" attributes within the element itself : > ><P xml:cm="#PCDATA A ACRONYM APPLET B BASEFONT BDO BIG BR BUTTON CITE CODE DFN >EM FONT I IFRAME IMG INPUT KBD LABEL MAP OBJECT Q S SAMP SCRIPT SELECT SMALL >SPAN STRIKE STRONG SUB SUP TEXTAREA TT U VAR" xml:attlist="ID ID #IMPLIED; >LANG NAME #IMPLIED; etc..."> ... Funny, no ? Although XML-DEV is open to any new ideas I predict you won't get an immediate enthusiastic response from the XML-WG to this suggestion. There are lots of possibilities that the WG has considered and some of them may be replayed here. But I think they have already proposed other ways of accomplishing this. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg 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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