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Re: 10th anniversary of the annoucement of XML ..need he

• To: cowtowncoder@y...
• Subject: Re: 10th anniversary of the annoucement of XML ..need help
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:25:16 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20060606191747.65882.qmail@w...> (messagefrom Tatu Saloranta on Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:17:47 -0700 (PDT))
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> Huh? I don't think most or any of wiki dialects could
> be described by SGML, so how would xml adoption reduce
> SGML adoption for wikis? Or do you think wikis could
> perhaps have developed to use the angle brackets
> instead of currently used short-hand notations (yes,
> some ugly wikis use tags, for apparently no good
> reason, along with non-tag markup -- if you want
> cheap-o tags, just use HTML)?

Unlike XML, SGML's concrete syntax isn't fixed, it isn't restricted to
using <..> syntax for tags, or even any (explict) tags at all.

I just asked google to turn up a link to sgml short ref maps and it
gave me the article that Rick was talking about..

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/03/03/sgmlwiki.html

David


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