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At 10:44 AM +1100 3/19/02, Marcus Carr wrote: >It depends what you consider a project to be - legal publishers are >still marking >up new pieces of legislation as SGML, DoDs are marking up helicopter data, >airlines are marking up aircraft data. Many of these are new projects in SGML, >designed to connect with their existing data. > These sound like new documents, not new projects. If some organization started marking up legislation or helicopter designs in SGML in 1990, and is still using that for new laws and new helicopters in 2002, that's not really a new use of SGML, any more than the latest Grisham novel is a new use of English. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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