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- Subject: Re: Semantics and SGML Application
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.133919.1@idicl1.idi.battelle.org>
- From: raudabaugh@idicl1.idi.battelle.org
- Date: 16 Aug 92 13:39:19 EST
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- Seems to me that a lot of verbage has been expended on something so trivial.
- SGML is not the end-all on document interchange. A DTD describes the content
- of a document but does NOT describe how an application should deal with the
- content.
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- Guess what, ANSI C doesn't either. A compiler should compile valid ANSI C,
- but the good ones complain about unreachable code. A source code analyzer
- will tell you bad things but won't run your program. A source code management
- system will do other things.
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- Also, RE: interchangeability, ever ported a C program? Compatibility, NOT!
-
- An SGML document is in the eye of the beholder (or application). SGML affords
- an expected input for printing, editting, searching, ... whatever the app wants
- to do.
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- I do hope that this group "lightens up" to a certain extent. SGML is YAS
- (yet another standard) that I know some of you have put blood/sweat/tears
- in. But it is still a YAS, a good one at that.
-
- Speaking of YAS, I will be attending the IEEE WG on SFQL, a query language
- that has a deep SGML roots. Dates are 18-19 August. Anyonelse going?
- Love to continue the arguments over a brew. Also willing to EMAIL/post
- my observations if anyone cares.
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