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At 08:50 AM 5/8/98 -0400, Paul Prescod wrote: >I think that Eliot, on the other hand, felt it was his personal duty to >use every SGML feature possible so that he would have an excuse to tell >vendors that their products were broken. :) That is good for the rest of >us, because he kept raising the bar, but it must have been very painful >out there on the bleeding edge. I think I'll continue to duck in behind >him. I'm still trying to staunch the bleeding. But seriously, I use those features of SGML that offer value to my and my clients' applications. Most of the features of SGML were invented for a good reason to solve real problems that people have. And, like any sufficiently general system, facilities designed for one purpose turn out to be useful for other, unanticipated purposes. For example, the simple LINK feature, which is really hopeless at its intended task, is ideal for adding architectural mappings to documents without disturbing the original DTD declarations. I have never asked for facilities that aren't useful. For example, I have never berated a tool supplier for not supporting CONCUR, RANK, DATATAG, or explicit LINK. Cheers, E. -- <Address HyTime=bibloc> W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer ISOGEN International Corp. 2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 95202. 214.953.0004 www.isogen.com </Address> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) |
