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Robin Cover writes: > On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, David Megginson wrote: > > > Way back in the 1980's, about 40 Internet years ago, the computer part > > Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo > > (Ontario) published a short monograph on this issue. I no longer have > > my copy, and remember neither the title nor author, but the premise > > was that inline markup like SGML should be considered harmful, and > > that out-of-line markup was much more flexible (since you can apply > > more than one hierarchy to the same content). > > Not from "Way back in the 1980s," but perhaps what you were > thinking of was Raymond's TR (an early version of the > monograph I reviewed was called "Markup Considered Harmful?".) Thanks, Robin, yes, that's it. It cannot really be 1993, though, because I'm certain that I read it while I was still a graduate student in Toronto, and I had left Toronto for a teaching appointment in Ottawa in summer 1992. Memory fades with age, I guess. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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