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Re: Remembering the original XML vision

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: Remembering the original XML vision
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:19:32 -0800
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Rick Jelliffe wrote:

> SGML - 85 pages (in my printed copy) without the annexes
> 
> XML - 52 pages (printed out from a web browser, at a medium to small setting) 
> Add a couple of pages for XML 1.1 without the appendixes.  

Fair enough, but if you remove all the unicode-character apparatus from 
XML 1.0 you probably cut that in half.  Which is one of the only 
important *technical* differences between XML and SGML - SGML was really 
underspecified on what a "character" was.  At the end of the day XML's 
main technical contribution may turn out to have been that it dragged 
Unicode into the mainstream. -Tim

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