Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SGML vs XML

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com>]

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.

Regards,
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