• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: "xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:14:39 -0400

Dylan Walsh wrote:

> Would there ever be a case where
> someone starting a brand new project today, with no need for any legacy
> support, would choose to use SGML over XML, because of some of the culled
> functionality is useful/needed?

SGML basically is a lot more flexible, and thus can more readily cope with
legacy data.  Does your data contain lots of < and > characters?  Change
the MDO (markup delimiter open) and MDC (markup delimiter close) characters.

You can get an overview, albeit an obscure one, of what XML is missing
from an SGML viewpoint at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215 .

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