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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: SGML vs XML
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Peter Ring <pri@magnus.dk> wrote: > I stand corrected. I should have known better, [1], [2], [3]. You had me going for a moment. It's a while since I read the XML recommendation in depth, in fact not since I wrote my contributions to "Professional XML Applications" for Wrox Press. Something could have been slipped in there. > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml I'm rather partial to quite a lot of the stuff listed in there as unavailable in XML. For example, SHORTREF and USEMAP. And especially case INsensitivity. > There's a suggested workaround here [4], [5]. > [4] http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/styling/profiling.html > [5] http://www.kosek.cz/xml/dboscon/profiling/frames.html Thanks for those links. I lost them in a recent system failure. But this "profiling" technique is, I believe, an obfuscation and that's something that working on SGML has taught me to eschew. It has it's place but not in the depths of a 500+ page manual. Regards, Trevor British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! Details at http://www.fdp.org.uk/ -- <>< Re: deemed!
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