Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SGML vs XML

[Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com>]

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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