• From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@b...>
• To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:41:23 -0600

"G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...> writes:

> ...
> "XML Schema? I don't need no stinking XML Schema!"
>
> Isn't that the big draw of XML over SGML?

For some people, apparently, yes.

But for the record, I believe there are other reasons to use XML over
SGML, many of them related to item 4 in the list of goals in the XML
specification.

Michael

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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Black Mesa Technologies LLC
http://blackmesatech.com

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