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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Including OS Version information on DocBook elements
On Tuesday 21 December 1999, at 17 h 16, the keyboard of Karl Eichwalder <ke@suse.de> wrote: > Wondering again why people refuse to use SGML and "marked sections"... Several reasons. Top two for me: - marked sections may contain errors since they are not validated if IGNOREd. Using a new attribute means that your document has still to be entirely valid. - you cannot do more complicated algebra like 'This phrase is only true between releases 1.3 and 2.1'. > XML is to please machines and not to make the writer happy. XML is to please the people who write custom applications. Exactly what I did to implement the OS versioning scheme. A few lines of Perl and I can extract each version. -- An happy XML writer
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