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Re: sgml vs xml
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr>
- To: Ben Hratshorne <docbook at green dot hartshorne dot net>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:32:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: sgml vs xml
- Organization: NIC France
- References: <20030307012858.GM39643@radix.cryptio.net>
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:28:58PM -0800,
Ben Hratshorne <docbook at green dot hartshorne dot net> wrote
a message of 43 lines which said:
> I was wondering a while ago whether to start my docbook project stuff
> using dsssl or xml.
They are not incompatible. Unless this is a typo, you compare apples
and oranges.
XML or SGML are markup meta-languages.
XSL or DSSSL are stylesheets languages.
You can (I do) use DSSSL for XML documents. The choice of a markup
meta-language is partly independant of the choice of the stylesheet language.
> Lurking on this list for a bit it seems that 90% of the questions are
> answered with XML syntax. Is it the case that though nobody really
> seems to say so everyone actually uses XML?
It is clear that SGML is slowly dying in favour of XML. For a new
project where there is no legacy, I believe there is no question: use
XML.