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Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?
- To: "Eve L. Maler" <Eve dot Maler at east dot sun dot com>
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?
- From: Karl Eichwalder <ke at gnu dot franken dot de>
- Date: 01 Jun 2000 19:32:53 +0200
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- References: <Bob Stayton's message of "Sun, 28 May 2000 1:40:07 PDT"><10005280140.aa23455@mammoth.sco.com><4.3.1.2.20000601093212.00c4dae0@abnaki.East.Sun.Com>
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"Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@east.sun.com> writes:
> Yes, but try and implement whole document production systems or EAI systems or
> whatever using only the aging SGML-only product base, and you'll soon be in
> trouble. If you decide to be 100% XML-compliant but not necessarily
> SGML-compliant (losing some markup functionality in the process), a whole
> world of tools opens up to you.
Yes, I know, XML is about tools ;-) "To make it easier to write
parsers etc."
Most free XML tools aren't mature enough and/or they are hard to
install. Most free and not free XML tools require java -- some of us
don't like java at all...
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