• From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:27:31 +1100

Sure, nothing goes away. A stable business should expect their backend can be kept alive -if evolving- for 20-30 years. I am still working with SGML systems sometimes! They tick away happily: we usually hide them as services behind a POX SOA facade for now.  (And we recently find it easier to find Omnimark developers than Xslt developers with publishing experience: the xslt developers we do find are often database-to-HTML people: so they know nothing about modes, priorities, ids, functions, encodings, predicates or other bread-and-butter document issues.)

One of the simplifications of XML was to move to newlines instead of SGML's Record Start/Record End signals. Off the mainframe and onto the commodity computers.

Do I remember that Digital's VMS OS didn't have text files, only records?

Rick

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