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 On Jun 6, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Bullard, Claude L ((Len)) wrote: > And in IDEAS/IADS (Unisys/USAMICOM) that supported dtd-less stylesheet > based coding. I forgot about IADS, but yet, that too. FWIW. EBT's DynaText did not require DTD's (but could take advantage of them), and I think SoftQuad could be used without them too. In all cases, the subset was similar to XML, and in (I believe) all cases, the stylesheets were more powerful than CSS in that they could also define hypermedia behaviour. > IDEAS was the commercial version of IADS with DTD batch > support as-needed. IADS was offered free to the world and provided an > example for Yuri and Dr. Goldfarb that the techniques for markup that > would become XML did work in hypermedia. Don't forget Steve DeRose and DynaText, which I would personally argue was superior to SoftQuad. > XML is outcome of many separate efforts to make SGML suitable for > hypert Yep, and led by people wanting more powerful capabilities than those offered by HTML etc. Even now many of the core benefits that were desired are missing in the WWW. The fact is that anyone with a reasonable amount of SGML experience ended up using a core subset similar to XML. Ultimately there was little new in XML, because it was based on something with a fairly long history. Some things, like I18N and explicit DTD-less support were good additions. 
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