XML

[John Halleck]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Wookey wrote:

> [...]

> I am now producing docs in SGML Docbook so I can probably usefully help
> with this work (although I'm not yet clear what the differences between
> SGML and XML are - they seem to be nearly identical).

  XML is mostly a stripped down SGML, minus the features that were hedious
  to implement and were not commonly used.

  A conforming XML parser is an order of magnitute easer to write than
  a fully confoming SGML parser.

> > A cave browser using this [XML] file (such beasts don't exist yet) would
> > recognise the Station 85 as an "Entrance" and render it in someway -
> > probably via a style sheet.
> 
> I use the jade parser to parse SGML here. I wonder if it can do XML too?

  Most SGML parsers can handle XML.  (modulo DTD issues...)

> There must be loads of XML developments out there that we could use bits
> of for our purposes.

  :)

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