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Re: Many different syntaxes in XML - is that good languagedesi

• From: Pete Cordell <pete++xmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk>
• Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 17:18:02 +0000

On 07/03/2022 16:57, Norman Gray wrote:

The other gasp-worthy thing about SGML was that all of these lexical items, such as '<', '<!', and so on and very much on, were configurable, so you could prefix your document with declarations (in the 'other' syntax) which changed these, and have different character sequences open and close start-tags, processing instructions, and so on.  The angle brackets and ampersands we're familiar with are just the SGML defaults.

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  • Many different syntaxes in XML - is that good language design?
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Many different syntaxes in XML - is that good language design?
    • From: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk>
  • Re: Many different syntaxes in XML - is that good languagedesign?
    • From: Pete Cordell <pete++xmldev@codalogic.com>
  • Re: Many different syntaxes in XML - is that good language design?
    • From: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk>