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On Mar 2, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Len Bullard wrote: > 1. The "NO DTD" crew lost. There was too much experience with > DTDless > systems at the time to let that happen. The optional DTD crew won > because > we had plenty of experience with that. One side of that was that people found DTD's to be useful only at certain points in the process... during the production process a document is not always/seldom 'valid'. Market forces made them optional ;-) > 2. The cost of an SGML parser had already gone to zero by the time > the SGML > ERB was formed. I think that there were actually few, if any 'true' SGML parsers. The reality was that a significant number of SGML *subset* parsers existing that shared a fairly common set of features. > Things improved as they will in a technology that is heavily used > and more > people get a voice. Speeches that justify the mistakes or the > triumphs at > the expense of the pioneers don't help. Very true, though it is useful to see everyone's perspectives on the battle for supremacy.
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