Re: DOCBOOK: Why no MAP/SHORTREFs in DocBook?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Trevor Jenkins <trevor@suneidesis.com> was heard to say:
| On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:
| > All of my experience with minimization lead me inexorably to the
| > conclusion that minimization was a painful impediment to interchange
| > and understandability.
| 
| If it's an impediment to interchange then there's something seriously
| wrong with SGML! :-|

I think it's possible to interpret XML as evidence that there was
something seriously wrong with SGML (though I'm not, in fact, inclined
to interpret it precisely that way myself :-).

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | A man can believe a considerable
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | deal of rubbish, and yet go about
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | his daily work in a rational and
                                   | cheerful manner.--Norman Douglas