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Re: SGML vs XML
- From: Trevor Jenkins <trevor dot jenkins at suneidesis dot com>
- To: DocBook applications <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:15:32 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SGML vs XML
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0000, Trevor Jenkins wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, fyl2xp1 <vnhu38f93@subdimension.com> wrote:
> >
> > > My advantages and disadvantages to going XML are as follows:
> > > [Note, this is XML and SGML primarily in the context of DocBook]
> >
> > There are "features" of SGML that have not been incorporated into XML.
>
> To get the best of both worlds, you can use SGML, and, should you want to
> use an XSL toolchain, use sx (aka sgml2xml) as an intermediate step.
Yup that's what I do. Except that for some electonic product delivery
options I use jade rather than extending the chain by a conversion to XML.
An XML instance is just one of the final forms the project delivers.
Regards, Trevor
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